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Hell Riders - The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor For many years Terry Brighton has sourced and worked with unique survivor's accounts of this battle. Terry Brighton is the Curator of The Queen's Royal Lancers Museum - the direct descendents of the 17th Lancers who led the charge. He is a member of the Crimean War Research Society and is an authority on The Crimean War. He has a degree in Politics and Philosophy and lives in Grantham. Klappentext On 25 October 1854! during the Crimean War! the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance! charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. “An example to all popular historians of how to combine a gripping yarn with deep insight into the social and cultural forces driving the action.” —Publishers Weekly “Brighton recounts the events as the survivors themselves remembered them . . . Readers who wish to avoid revisionist history will find the firsthand accounts difficult to resist.”—Military History Zusammenfassung On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons.

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Authors Terry Brighton
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 07.07.2005
 
EAN 9780141018317
ISBN 978-0-14-101831-7
No. of pages 416
Subjects Non-fiction book

Russia, European History, Battles & campaigns, Battles and campaigns, c 1850 to c 1859

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