num_pages: 400
description: “An outstanding work that strips away much of the nonsense that has surrounded a tragic military blunder . . . [a] splendid examination.” —BooklistOn October 25, 1854, acting in defense of their base at Balaklava during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and brutal charge in military history. Seven hundred men armed with sabers and lances charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. In the slaughter that followed, many fell to roundshot and shell. Those who survived took a terrible revenge on the enemy.In this vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody melee that followed, Terry Brighton draws on twenty years of research to tell the story in the words of the survivors themselves for the first time.Hell Riders takes the reader closer than ever before to the experience of charging into the valley of death, and reveals the horrific truth about the charge of the Light Brigade exactly as the survivors lived it.
language: English
title: Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade
titlecomplete: Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade
genres: 19th Century, Military History, History, British Literature, War, Russia, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 162
publisher: Holt Paperbacks