The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140012781ISBN-10:140012788UPC:9780140012781Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Modern, Military, EuropeBook Topic:19th Century, Great BritainSize:7.72 x 5.08 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC0RB23400
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140012781ISBN-10:140012788UPC:9780140012781Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Modern, Military, EuropeBook Topic:19th Century, Great BritainSize:7.72 x 5.08 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC0RB23400
Cecil Blanche Woodman-Smith was a British historian and author of popular history books on the Victorian era, including The Great Hunger, Queen Victoria, The Reason Why, and Thin Men of Hadda. She was appointed CBE in 1960, and received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland and the University of St. Andrews. She died in 1977.
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