Word: crimean
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...head has to be hatted. Headgear ranges generally in inverse proportion from price to utility, from the $1,000 silk-lined sable topknot to the $3.95 classic old salt's woolen watch cap, which pulls down over the brow and ears. The Balaclava helmet, invented during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs only $4.95 and completely covers the head and neck. The last word in cold-weather protection is the steel-gray goose-down face mask ($16.95), with mini-slits...
...that people can dress or act for reasons that have nothing to do with climbing or sliding down the status pole. Altruism, love and compassion seem excluded by his highly stylized determinism. Those who dismiss Wolfe do so at just this point. If he were sent to cover the Crimean War, would he not send back a dispatch describing Florence Nightingale's uniform...
...process of evolution. They have also proved marvelously mobile. They have marched with every army ever fielded, and claimed more victims than bronze spears, muskets or machine guns. From 1803 to 1815, Napoleon lost more of his men to typhus than he did to bullets or bayonets. During the Crimean War in 1854-56, disease killed ten times as many British soldiers as did Russian cannons. Even at the turn of our present century, British combat deaths during the Boer War were only a fifth as high as losses due to disease. Indeed, it was not until the Russo-Japanese...
Knightley's lightly armed narrative charges from the Crimean War, where the modern techniques of reporting and censorship began, to Viet Nam, where television brought packaged blood and flame into the home and censorship was abandoned in favor of a massive public relations campaign to sell the war. Famous locations and faces flash by in Knightley's 120-year extravaganza, but some things never change. In the correspondents' rush to be first with the news, the truth is usually distorted and sometimes sacrificed. Sooner or later, a government official gets around to asking a zealous reporter, "Whose...
...first modern war correspondent William Howard Russell, who wrote the account of the charge of the Light Brigade-and later performed brilliantly during the U.S. Civil War. Had he been educated by the Russian side, Knightley might have recalled that a young second lieutenant brought the horrors of the Crimean War home to Moscow with his articles from Sevastopol. They miraculously passed through the censors untouched, and bore the byline Leo Tolstoy. R.Z. Sheppard