Balaclava
1854 : The Charge of the Light Brigade
(Campaign Series, No. 6)
by John Sweetman. Paperback
Paperback: 96 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.36 x
9.81 x 7.29
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 0850459613; (October 1990)
The
Charge of the Light Brigade
by John Sweetman
The Charge of the Light Brigade, famously immortalized by Tennyson,
lasted only 20 minutes from beginning to end and was but one of the three
dramatic phases of the Battle of Balaclava. John Sweetman describes this
dashing series of actions, including "The Thin Red Line" and the Charge
of the Heavy Brigade, as the Anglo-French army besieging the Crimean port
of Sebastopol defended its supply base from Russian attack. The Publisher.
(Paperback - July 2000)
The
Charge : Why the Light Brigade Was Lost
by Mark Adkin
Hardcover: 240 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.19 x
9.52 x 6.39
Leo Cooper; ISBN: 0850524695; (March 1997)
Crimea
: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
by Trevor Royle
The mid-19th-century Crimean War, pitting England, France, and less
powerful allies against Russia, was one of the first major international
wars in history. In the execution, it was none too inspiring. As Trevor
Royle writes in his sweeping study of the conflict, "it encompassed maladministration
on a grand scale and human suffering, if not without parallel then at least
minutely recorded by the watching war correspondents"--the war being the
first as well to have been widely reported. It was, a contemporary British
journal put it, a war of "lions led by donkeys," young men commanded by
doddering veterans of the Napoleonic campaigns who served in an unlikely
alliance. The English officers, Royle writes, could never shake the habit
of calling their French comrades "the enemy," and never quite trusted them,
either.
The result was carnage: not only the loss of a good portion of the Light
Brigade in the most famous--but not the most inept--incident of the war,
but also the destruction of whole regiments left to blunder about in the
fog and smoke, thanks to their commanders' inadequate intelligence-gathering
efforts. Not much changed at war's end. In the eventual peace treaty, France
and England and Russia kept their territories more or less intact, and
the struggle for power between Russia and the neighboring Ottoman Empire,
in whose defense France and England had ostensibly gone to war, stretched
out for another generation. It ended with a Russian victory that allowed
Russia to assume control of Turkish holdings in the Balkans, which, Royle
notes, lay the seeds for still another international conflict, World War
I.
Royle does a fine job of negotiating through the many complexities,
diplomatic and military, of the Crimean War. His descriptions of battlefield
tactics (or the lack thereof) are among the best in the literature. More
comprehensive than Robert B. Edgerton's Death or Glory: The Legacy of the
Crimean War, Royle's Crimea is likely to stand as an enduring work on this
strange, wasteful conflict. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 564 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.77 x
9.61 x 6.62
St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312230796; (May 2000)
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer
by Barbara Montgomery Dossey
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Nightingale
The
Crimean War (Osprey Essential Histories)
by John Sweetman
(Paperback - March 2001)
The
Crimean War (The War Correspondents)
by Andrew D. Lambert, Stephen Badsey (Contributor)
(Hardcover - September 1997)
The
Crimean War
by R. L. V. Ffrench Blake, et al
(Hardcover - March 1997)
The
Crimean War (World History Series)
by Deborah Bachrach
(Library Binding - January 1998)
The
Crimean War 1853-1856 (Modern Wars)
by Winfried Baumgart
(Paperback - February 2000)
Death
or Glory : The Legacy of the Crimean War
by Robert B. Edgerton
(Paperback - June 2000)
Death
or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War
by Robert B. Edgerton
(Hardcover - April 1999)
The
Drummer Boy's Battle (Trailblazer Books)
by Dave Jackson, et al
(Paperback - January 1997)
Head Dress of the British Heavy Cavalry (Dragoons)
1842-1922 : Dragoon Guards, Household, and Yeomanry Cavalry, 1842-1934
(Schiffer Military History)
by David J. Rowe
Listed under British Uniforms
MARCHING
TO THE DRUMS: Eyewitness Accounts of War from the Charge of the Light Brigade
to the Siege of Ladysmith
by Ian Knight (Editor), edited by Ian Knight
(Hardcover)
The
Origins of the Crimean War (Origins of Modern Wars)
by David M. Goldfrank
(Textbook Binding - March 1994)
Reason
Why/the Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
by Cecil Woodham-Smith, C. Woodham Smith
(Paperback - June 1987)
The
Sebastopol Sketches (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff (Photographer)
(Paperback - July 1986)
Historical
Dictionary of the Crimean War (Historical Dictionaries of
War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, 19)
by Guy Arnold, John Worronoff (Editor)
(Hardcover - June 2002)
The
Ultimate Spectacle : A Visual History of the Crimean War (Documenting the
Image)
by Ulrich Keller
(Hardcover - January 2002)
The Russian Army of the Crimean War, 1854-56
(Men-At-Arms Series, No. 241)
Robert H.G. Thomas, Richard Scollins (Illustrator)
Paperback / Published 1995
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