Letters from the Light Brigade: The British Cavalry in the Crimean War

"Dozens of graphic first-hand accounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade emerge to shed new light on the military blunder immortalised by Tennyson's poem" (The Telegraph (UK)).

The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale actions in military history. Over 160 years since the event, and since it was immortalized in Tennyson's poem, it has generated a stream of writing and debate. Yet, as this new book by Anthony Dawson shows, the subject is...