by TerryBrighton (Author)
On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. This vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody melee that followed, by an author with unique access to regimental archives, is told largely in the words of the survivors themselves. Terry Brighton takes the reader closer than ever before to the experience of charging down the Valley of Death.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 0141018313
ISBN 13: 9780141018317
Book Overview: 'Hell Riders...is a first-rate account of the charge itself and the system which let it happen. Written with humour and understanding...a masterly, moving and entertaining book.' Allan Mallinson, The Times. 'He writes with pace and precision, and as an account of this episode his book will be hard to beat...excellent'. Simon Heffer, The Spectator.