Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Alexander von Kotzebue, Ivan Aivazovsky and William Simpson. A British officer serving as an interpreter through the Crimean campaign, from the Danube to the trenches before Sevastopol. Whyte-Melville was there with the Turkish irregular cavalry and wrote the fighting from memory rather than dispatches. This edition is bound with 58 plates of Crimean War painting by William Simpson, Ivan Aivazovsky, Adolf Schreyer and others.