Caucasian Battlefields. A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921. by ALLEN, W.E.D. & MURATOFF, Paul:: Near Fine Hardcover (1953) 1st Edition

1st Edition - Hardcover - Cambridge: At the University Press: First editon - 1953 - Condition: Near Fine - Very Good - large 8vo., xxii, 614pp., with frontispiece and 7 other plates, 8 folding maps, 17 full-page maps, and 14 sketch maps to the text, original blue cloth gilt. A practically near fine clean copy in the uncommon original dustwrapper which is lightly rubbed has a few small chips to extreme head of spine and internally re-inforced along extreme top and lower edges. The Caucasus region, which forms a natural boundary between Asia and Europe, has always been of great strategic importance. Russia's expansion into the region in the late eighteenth century brought conflict with the Ottoman Empire, creating a new area of contention between these two states, and the borderlands remained in a state of intermittent conflict until the end of the First World War. This is a history of the four Russo-Turkish Wars fought in the Caucasus during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is based largely on Turkish and Russian sources - staff histories, military journals, and memoirs - and on English, German, and French studies of particular campaigns. The main theme is the history of the defence of eastern Anatolia, from the end of the Napoleonic wars to modern times. The authors briefly relate their accounts of the campaigns to the general history of Russia's drive to the Mediterranean, and to the wider problems of Middle East strategy. The military topography of the border regions of Turkey and Caucasia is described in detail. This work was described on publication as "the most complete and authoritative study of this subject available in the English language" (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, XIX, 1, p206), and has recently been confirmed as "a classic study" (ODNB). Allen "was a man of many talents: a gentleman, a businessman, a philosopher, an adventurer, but continuously and most powerfully an energetic historian and linguist. He made his library, later held by the University of Indiana, the finest private collection of books on Georgia and the Caucasus in the Western world. Throughout his life he travelled extensively in remote places and may be the only person to have walked the entire length of the Turkish-Russian frontier"; an essayist, cultural historian, novelist and playwright, Muratoff was cited in Clive James' Cultural Amnesia as a prime example of "just how brilliant somebody can be and still be a forgotten man", having published an account of a tour of Italy, Obrazy italii (1911-24), "one of the most dazzling books of its type ever written. As a book on the Italian Grand Tour it not only stands directly in the tradition of Goethe, Gregorovius, Burckhardt and Arthur Symons, but it is better than any of them". - Caucasian Battlefields. A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921.

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