The First Casualty
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Prion Books Ltd
Published: March 8, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781853753763
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Political campaigning & advertising; Press & journalism; Radio & television industry; Warfare & Defence
First sentence: "At ten minutes past eleven our Light Cavalry Brigade advanced...They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war... At the distance of 1,200 yards the whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouth"