A Cavalryman in the Crimea: The Letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon Guards - Couverture rigide

Warner, Philip

 
9781848841086: A Cavalryman in the Crimea: The Letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon Guards
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ISBN 10 : 1848841086 ISBN 13 : 9781848841086
Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2009

Synopsis

Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman, who sent home throughout the entire Crimea campaign many detailed letters to his family at Park Hatch in Surrey. Temple Godman went out at the start of the war, took part in the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava and in other engagements, and did not return to England until June 1856, after peace had been declared. He took three very individual horses and despite all his adventures brought them back unscathed.Godman's dispatches from the fields of war reveal his wide interests and varied experiences; they range from the pleasures of riding in a foreign landscape, smoking Turkish tobacco, and overcoming boredom by donning comic dress and hunting wild dogs, to the pain of seeing friends and horses die from battle, disease, deprivation and lack of medicines.He writes scathingly about the skein of rivalries between the Generals ('a good many muffs among the chiefs'), inaccurate and 'highly coloured' newspaper reports and, while critical of medical inefficiency, regards women in hospitals as 'a sort of fanaticism'. Yet at other times he will employ the pen of an artist in describing a scene, or wax eloquent on the idiosyncrasies of horses. He is altogether a most gallant and sensitive young cavalryman, and deservedly went on to achieve high rank after the war. Always fresh and easy to read, his letters provide an unrivalled picture of what it was really like to be in the Crimea.

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Revue de presse

A young cavalry officer s letters home from the Crimean War. Written with vivid frankness, Temple Godman s descriptions cover battles ( he charged at Balaklava) hospitals, the deficiencies of the high command and press reporting - along with the pain and sorry of losing comrades. Remarkably Godman took three horses to the war - and brought all three back unscathed. --Chris Buckland

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Military
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1848841086
ISBN 13 
9781848841086
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
256
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