Word: crimeans
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...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
...Charge of the Light Brigade [1936]. A depiction of the events leading up to a British cavalry charge against the Russians in the Crimean War. Including Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and David Niven. Ch. 56, 6:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
...tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week to hard labor, the Estonians arrested yesterday for the crime of wanting to visit their relatives, the Crimean Tatars, current victims of Soviet genocide and the tens of millions of others whose names have not escaped, who disappeared without trace, as Solzhenitsyn himself testifies...