MERCENARIES FOR THE CRIMEA. THE GERMAN, SWISS, AND ITALIAN LEGIONS IN BRITISH SERVICE 1854-1856

Montreal:McGill-Queens University Press. 1977. viii+197pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good, clean copy, save for some light dust soiling to page edges and pp. 57-60 have their bottom edge roughly cut,  inside and out with a very good, lighlty soiled and shelfworn dust jacket. "The more dramatic episodes of the Crimean War have never lacked historians, but less attention has been paid to the unspectacular but crucial problem of recruiting for the army which confronted British ministries in 1854-55. This book is the first detailed and comprehensive account of the attempt to find a partial solution of the problem by the traditional method of foreign recruiting."...dj