Add this copy of The Reason Why to cart. $34.38, good condition, Sold by The Parnassus BookShop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1953 by Constable & Company Ltd.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Edition, Constable & Company, 1953. Hardcover in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Book review from when the book was first published, in a newspaper from England, laid in. The history of the Crimean War, 1854-56, by a preeminent historian. "Theirs not to reason why" was the song of the Laureate, immortalizing the charge of the gallant Six Hundred, a brigade of cavalry heading to certain destruction in the Balaclava Battle of 1854. It has been considered one of the greatest military follies in all military history. Three page fold-out map of the Battle of Balaclava at the back of the book. Six illustrations including two map sketches. Frontispiece: In full colour, "HIs Lordship, A Sketch on the Phoenix", The 7th Earl of Cardigan at sword exercise in Phoenix Park, Dublin, about 1843, The book is bound in red cloth with silver titles on spine, very clean, spine sunned, extremities lightly rubbed, no scuffing; tight and solid sewn binding. Former owner name of endpaper. Internals very clean and unmarked, no creasing. Pages are moderately toned, heavily toned on edges. 293 pages with Principal Sources and Index. 5.75 ix 8.75 inches. 1953, Constable & Company Ltd., England.
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Good in Fair jacket. First American edition. Small tear on spine, some discoloration, a sound, good copy in poor dustwrapper lacking the bottom half of the spine. Signed by the author on the front fly.
Add this copy of The Reason Why to cart. $203.59, good condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1953 by Constable.
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First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. w293. Military history: a detailed study of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Later to become a film, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' 1968 film, directed by Tony Richardson. The screenplay was written by Charles Wood from a first draft (uncredited) by John Osborne. Many short notes in and underlinings and marginal linings in Osborne's characteristics style with some pages turned at top corner obviously for his researches towards his script...Frontispiece colour illustration of 7th Earl of Cardigan at sword exercise: 'His Lordship, a Sketch in the Phoenix, ' c.1843. Four b/w illustrations & two maps. From the library of the playwright John Osborne (1929-1994) with a posthumous book label reading 'From The Library of the Hurst. The John Osborne Arvon Centre Shropshire, ' The Hurst was his final residence-a large country house, now a cultural centre owned by the Arvon Foundation, from whom this book was obtained. Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (1896&endash; 1977) was a British historian and biographer. Near very good. Very slight wear & slight fading of covers.
Bloody English upper class snobbery leads cavalry to slaughter but leaves their leaders untouched.
The unvarnished truth behind the doomed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.
nicholas m
Sep 15, 2011
A classic
Read many years ago, then recently borrowed from the library, and now I have a copy for the next time. But one should continue with Orlando Figes's recent comprehensive study of the Crimean War.
