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Orlando Figes talks to Oliver Bullough
Crimea
Hay Festival 2011,
A magisterial account of the terrible C19th war of land and religion that gave us The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sebastopol and Florence Nightingale as it pitted Imperial Russia against Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire.