The Charge (ePub)
The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost
(Sprache: Englisch)
Unravels facts from fiction about one of the most controversial episodes in military history: the British cavalry's Crimean War disaster.
This book shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why this military action happened, and who was to blame....
This book shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why this military action happened, and who was to blame....
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Unravels facts from fiction about one of the most controversial episodes in military history: the British cavalry's Crimean War disaster.
This book shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why this military action happened, and who was to blame. You'll ride with the Regiments down the valley, visit the Russian guns as they frantically fire from three sides, before limping painfully back up the valley with the survivors. The story switches skillfully from the strategic and tactical problems of the battlefield to what it was like for the trooper in the valley or a Russian gunner serving his cannon. Through the novel use of sketches you can, at every stage, look down the on the battlefield from the same position as that used by the British commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan. You'll see the situation as Raglan saw it when he gave each of his infamous four orders that led to the charge. The fourth order, that launched the Brigade down the valley of death, involved four "horsemen of calamity." Raglan gave the order, Captain Nolan delivered it, Lord Lucan received it, and the Earl of Cardigan executed it. History has disagreed over the share of the blame. The author makes a masterly analysis of the probabilities and discusses factors previously overlooked. There is a cogent argument, never made before, that the blunder was deliberate. This book is probably the closest we will ever get to the truth about the charge of the Light Brigade.
This book shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why this military action happened, and who was to blame. You'll ride with the Regiments down the valley, visit the Russian guns as they frantically fire from three sides, before limping painfully back up the valley with the survivors. The story switches skillfully from the strategic and tactical problems of the battlefield to what it was like for the trooper in the valley or a Russian gunner serving his cannon. Through the novel use of sketches you can, at every stage, look down the on the battlefield from the same position as that used by the British commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan. You'll see the situation as Raglan saw it when he gave each of his infamous four orders that led to the charge. The fourth order, that launched the Brigade down the valley of death, involved four "horsemen of calamity." Raglan gave the order, Captain Nolan delivered it, Lord Lucan received it, and the Earl of Cardigan executed it. History has disagreed over the share of the blame. The author makes a masterly analysis of the probabilities and discusses factors previously overlooked. There is a cogent argument, never made before, that the blunder was deliberate. This book is probably the closest we will ever get to the truth about the charge of the Light Brigade.
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Adkin
Major Mark Adkin was commissioned into The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in 1956 and served with it and The Royal Anglian Regiment in Germany, Malaya, Mauritius and Aden. On leaving the British Army he joined the Overseas Civil Service and was posted to the Solomon Islands. Transferred to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, he was one of the last British District Officers anywhere in the world.His final overseas post was as a contract officer for five years with the Barbados Defence Force, and it was as the Caribbean operations staff officer that he participated in the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. He now lives in Bedford.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mark Adkin
- 2020, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: PEN & SWORD BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1526707217
- ISBN-13: 9781526707215
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2020
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- Größe: 9.05 MB
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