Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith Year: 1953 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military
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ISBNs: 9780140012781 0140012788 |
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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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