Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance and The Whisperers. He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.
A first-class historian, as his splendid new book, an epic account of the Crimean War of 1853-56, amply demonstrates Daily Telegraph