I'd add Douglas Dunn's "Dressed to Kill" into the
mix--lots of Crimean stuff there if memory serves. And
in the 19th-c Kinglake, whose prose is quite tasty.
The Crimea was the first war covered properly by the
newspapers, because of the electric telegraph -- and
is a locus classicus for the effed up overconfident
foreign adventure. It's certainly better known than
the Opium War, the War of Jenkins Ear, etc.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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