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Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade
Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade
Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade
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Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade

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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

In October 1854, with the Crimean War just under way and British and French troops pushing the tsar's forces back from the Black Sea, seven hundred intrepid English horsemen charged a mile and a half into the most heavily fortified Russian position in the Crimea in Ukraine. In the seven minutes it took the cavalry to cross this distance, more than five hundred of them were killed. Celebrated in poetry and legend, the charge of the Light Brigade has stood for a century and a half as a pure example of military dash and daring. Until now, historical accounts of this cavalry charge have relied upon politically motivated press reports and diaries kept by the aristocratic British generals who commanded the action.

In Hell Riders, noted historian and Crimean War expert Terry Brighton looks, for the first time, to the journals recorded by survivors-the soldiers who did the fighting. His riveting firsthand narrative reveals the tragically inept leadership on the part of the British commander in chief, Lord Raglan, whose orders for the charge were poorly communicated and misinterpreted, and an unfathomable indifference on the part of British officers to the men who survived the battle and were left to tend their wounds and bury the dead in the freezing cold. While the charge overran the Russians, it gained nothing and the war continued for another two years. In finally capturing the truth behind the charge of the Light Brigade, Brighton offers a stirring portrait of incredible bravery in the service of a misguided endeavor.

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Release dateDec 10, 2013
ISBN9781466859678
Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade

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    When it came to factual knowledge regarding The Charge of the Light Brigade all I knew about it was that scene from the Little Rascals with Alfalfa running around the classroom with firecrackers exploding down the back of his pants while trying to recite Tennyson’s famous poem. To correct this wrong and satiate my latest hunger -information on the Crimean War- I picked up Terry Brighton’s “Hell Riders” a historical treatise on what truly happened to those who rode in that infamous charge. Mr. Brighton’s writing is succinct, easy to read, and was rife with a plethora of the information I was searching for. From the little things such as that the war was originally known as the Great War with Russia to the actual roll-call of who was wounded, who died and who survived relatively unscathed filled this reader with the knowledge I craved. On my agenda of things to do here on librarything is to see what other history books Mr. Brighton has in print, I know I’ll be pleased.

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