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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Time Reading Program Special Edition. Cover by Leo and Diane Dillon 6 illustrations--historic monotone reproductions. 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. Red and purple illustratrions on wraps, very clean and unmarked, trace wear to extremities. Internals very clean and unmarked, no creasing. xv, 312 pages with Principal Sources and Index. 8 c 5.25 inches. 1982, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia.
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Leon and Diane Dillon. As new. Introduction Gordon A. Craig. Time-Life Books, c1982. Time Reading Program Special Edition. 312pp., index, black and white illustratioins. Cover art Leo and Diane Dillon. 8vo. Uncreased spine, as new unread trade paperback.
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.