The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade - Couverture souple

Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014139031X ISBN 13 : 9780141390314

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

The renowned historian and biographer, Cecil Woodham-Smith, is best-known for this book, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE and THE GREAT HUNGER.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014139031X
• ISBN 13: 9780141390314
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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