THE REASON WHY

Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith

Publisher: Constable

Year published: 1953

Pagination: xii + 293pp, colour frontispiece, illustrations, maps

Condition: Blue boards, some foxing, working/reading copy.

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Blue boards,no d/w. May have light foxing and previous owner name on endpaper. The Light Cavalry Brigade and the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. The author adopts an original approach to the account of the events which culminated in the charge of the Light Brigade, focusing on the two principal protagonists, Lords Lucan and Cardigan. He traces their early lives and developing rivalries.