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The Reason Why Book

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.Read More

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  • 0140012788
  • 9780140012781
  • Cecil Woodham-Smith
  • 24 June 1971
  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
  • New impression
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