Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light BrigadeSt. Martin's Press, 2005 - 400 страници On the 150th anniversary of the world's most famous cavalry charge comes a revisionist retelling of the battle, based on firsthand accounts from the soldiers who fought there. |
Съдържание
The Ruling Asses Their lordships Lucan and | 18 |
Journey into Hell Three trials en route to the Crimea | 31 |
The Invasion of the Crimea From Kalamita Bay to | 46 |
Reconnaissance and the Cossacks The secret | 63 |
TWO The Charge of the Light Brigade | 79 |
The Charge Seven minutes into hell with the Light | 105 |
Behind the Guns The Light Brigade pursues the | 142 |
The Return The survivors fight their way back | 170 |
After the Crimea 2 From the facts to the legend | 229 |
FOUR Investigating the Charge | 237 |
The Balaklava Bugle Controversy Did Henry Joy or | 262 |
Lord Cardigans Retreat Did Cardigan desert the | 278 |
Not the Six Hundred Counting them out and | 290 |
The Truth about Scutari Was Florence Nightingale | 303 |
Light Brigade Scandals Murder suicide and the | 316 |
Researching the Light Brigade Did | 331 |
Experience and Observation Death in the valley and | 189 |
THREE The Last of the Light Brigade | 203 |
After the Crimea 1 From the battlefield to the | 223 |
Bibliography | 361 |
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