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The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade (Penguin Classic Military History S.) - Softcover
It is a story of astonishing courage and honour, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony - and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that the 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, Mrs Woodham-Smith gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.
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Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. 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, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.
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The renowned historian and biographer, Cecil Woodham-Smith, is best-known for this book, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE and THE GREAT HUNGER.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 014139031X
- ISBN 13 9780141390314
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