William Russell

This volume collects the newspaper dispatches of William Howard Russell, the Times writer who reported from mid-nineteenth-century wars. The pieces cover the Crimean campaign, with its hospitals, trenches, and official confusion; the Indian Rebellion; the American Civil War; the Franco-Prussian War; and later colonial fighting, plus some civilian reporting. Russell writes from camps and columns, naming weather, supply, officers, and the condition of ordinary soldiers. The selection is chronological by conflict rather than a single memoir. The book is a gathering of journalism, not one campaign monograph and not a private diary.

Bound in grey-brown image blocked buckram. Grey-brown endleaves. Black slipcase.