Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Name: Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
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ISBN: 9780140012781

ISBN-10: 0140012788

ISBN-13: 9780140012781

Edition: N/A

Authors: Cecil Woodham-Smith

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This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, Woodham-Smith gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.68" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English