num_pages: 288
description: Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.
language: English
title: The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
titlecomplete: The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
characters: George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
genres: Historical, War, British Literature, European History, Nonfiction, Military History, 19th Century, Military Fiction, Russia, History
ratings_count: 519
publisher: Penguin Group