This book is based on published correspondence. Thus it stands in debt to the scores of persons who have edited and selected the material referred to in the notes as well as to the authors of the letters themselves. Literal translation from the French has been this writer's responsibility. The research was done in library collections at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, and Harvard University. Personal thanks are due to Professor Emeritus Chester Penn Higby at Wisconsin who encouraged my early interest in the Crimean War and to Professor Chester V. Easum, also of Wisconsin, for underยญ standing and assistance at a time when both were sorely needed. The typing of various stages of the manuscript was done by the secretarial staff of the Humanities Department at the Massaยญ chusetts Institute of Technology, and also by my wife, Dorothy, whose patient efforts in this project have been considerable. While this book has something to say to the professional historian, I hope that the general reader may also find interest in these ambitious officers and their emperor
CONTENT
One Not Enough Talent -- Two The New Men -- Three While Europe Accepts a New Emperor, an Old Quarrel Brings War -- Four Commanders for the Expedition to the East -- Five The Expedition Gets Started -- Six Allied Friction and Action at Last -- Seven Invasion and a Clash of Arms -- Eight First Rebuffs -- Nine The Winter Policy -- Ten Changing of the Guard -- Eleven The Decline of Canrobert -- Twelve Initiative and Insubordination -- Thirteen Fall of the Malakoff, Key to Sebastopol -- Fourteen The War Comes to a Close -- Conclusion
