1856 A Narrative of the Siege of Kars

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition.

Featuring two folding maps: "The Fortress of Kars" and "Asia Minor and Armenia". With frontispiece. Collated complete.

With 32 pages of publisher's advertisements, "Mr Murray's General List of Works", to the rear of the book.

In this work, renowned army physician and writer Humphry Sandwith recounts and comments on his experience of the Siege of Kars, the final major event in the Crimean War. Resident of Turkey until the fall of Kars, Sandwith relates his travels through neighbouring Armenia and Lazistan to the rapidly changing political landscape of Turkey.