This seminal work focuses on British grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. With a revised introduction contextualizing the 1990 text, and the addition of a bibliography, the book is available to a new generation of scholars, and situated in the historiography of the Crimean War.

Introduction: A Crimean war? -- The Crimean War : British grand strategy against Russia, 1853-56 : introduction to 2011 edition -- Great Britain and Russia, 1815-53 -- The crisis in the east -- National strategy and naval policy -- The strategic balance -- Sinope -- Preparing for war -- War aims and strategy -- The Danube front -- The grand raid -- The siege -- The Russian response -- The Baltic campaign -- Bomarsund -- Politics and strategy -- The Black Sea theatre, January-April 1855 -- Kertch -- The turning point -- After Sevastopol -- Return to the Baltic -- Sweaborg -- The limits of power -- The great armament -- A limited peace -- British strategy and the war.