Battles of the Crimean War
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On the other hand no campaign should be more familiar, because none has been ‘covered’ more fully and more candidly. The historian of the Crimean battles has then (it would appear) only to make a synthesis of the innumerable letters and reports and his story is complete. Unfortunately this is not so. With smoke from the black powder then used drifting across the battlefield, lying heavily over batteries, the combatant could often see and report little more than what had happened in his vicinity; and even in this he is not necessarily reliable…
As for those who recollected in tranquillity—and there were many—it is enough to record the remark of a contemporary Canadian military historian: ‘Memory can play tricks upon an officer after some lapse of time, especially when the officer’s own interest and prejudice are engaged.’
Beset by these difficulties the writer who surrounds every incident with reservations and qualifications will rapidly weary his readers. He must on matters of moment, such for example as Nolan’s responsibility for the Light Brigade charge, use his judgment on the evidence available and make up his own mind. This I have tried to do.”
W. Baring Pemberton
William Baring Pemberton (1897-1966) was born at Swindon Manor, near Cheltenham. He was educated at Wellington and Oxford where he read history and law. He was principally interested in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries and was the author of biographies of Lord Carteret and Lord North. During the six years of World War II he taught history at Eton College. He then moved to Sussex in 1946 and became a broadcaster. Baring Pemberton was a member of the Circle of Glass Collectors. He died in 1966.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Very much a British perspective on battles in whichthe British Army played the major role rather than a balanced accont of the war as a whole.