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The Charge: The Real Reason why the Light Brigade was Lost
The Charge: The Real Reason
Why The Light Brigade Was Lost
    The charge of the Light
    Brigade is one of
    Britain's best-known
    glorious military
    disasters. On 25 October
    1854, during the siege
    of Sebastopol, the Light
    Brigade attacked Russian
    gun positions at
    Balaclava. The charge
    lasted 7 minutes; of 673
    officers and men who went
    into action, 247 men and
    497 horses were lost.
    This book shatters many
    long-held conceptions of
    how and why it happened,
    and who was to blame.
    Mark Adkin, a former
    professional soldier,
    has combined military
    expertise and detailed
    research of participants'
    accounts with a careful
    examination of the actual
    ground. His story
    switches carefully from
    the strategic and
    tactical problems of the
    battlefield to what it
    was like for the trooper
    riding down the valley or
    a Russian gunner serving
    his cannon. Through the
    novel use of sketches the
    reader can, at every
    stage, look down on the
    battlefield from the same
    position as that used by
    the British
    commander-in-chief, Lord
    Raglan. He sees the
    situation as Raglan saw
    it when he gave his order
    that launched the Brigade
    down the valley of death.
    Raglan gave the order,
    Captain Nolan delivered
    it, Lord Lucan received
    it, and the Earl of
    Cardigan executed it.
    History has disagreed
    over the share of the
    blame. This book makes a
    masterly analysis of the
    probabilities and
    discusses factors
    previously overlooked.
    There is a cogent
    argument, never made
    before, that the blunder
    was deliberate. The
    result is a gripping and
    definitive study of a
    debacle that has never
    ceased to enthral the
    imagination.
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The Charge: The Real Reason why the Light Brigade was Lost
The Charge: The Real Reason
Why The Light Brigade Was Lost
    The charge of the Light
    Brigade is one of
    Britain's best-known
    glorious military
    disasters. On 25 October
    1854, during the siege
    of Sebastopol, the Light
    Brigade attacked Russian
    gun positions at
    Balaclava. The charge
    lasted 7 and 1/2 minutes;
    of 673 officers and men
    who went into action,
    247 men and 497 horses
    were lost. This book
    shatters many long-held
    conceptions of how and
    why it happened, and who
    was to blame. Mark Adkin,
    a former professional
    soldier, has combined
    military expertise and
    detailed research of
    participants' accounts
    with a careful
    examination of the actual
    ground. The result is a
    gripping and definitive
    study of a debacle that
    has never ceased to
    entral the imagination.
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Heroes & Villains: Inside the minds of the greatest warriors in history
Heroes & Villains: Inside The
Minds Of The Greatest Warriors
In History
    In the history of
    warfare, an elite group
    of men have attained
    almost legendary status
    through their courage,
    ambition and unrivalled
    military genius. But many
    of these same men
    possessed deep personal
    character flaws. In
    Heroes & Villains,
    acclaimed historian
    Frank McLynn focuses on
    six of the most powerful
    and magnetic leaders of
    all time: Spartacus,
    Attila the Hun, Richard
    the Lionheart, Cortés,
    Tokugawa Ieyasu and
    Napoleon. How did these
    mortal men rise to
    positions of seemingly
    invincible power? What
    were the motives, the
    personal strengths and
    often weaknesses that
    drove them to achieve
    what no one else dared?


    In six powerful
    portraits, McLynn
    brilliantly evokes the
    critical moments when
    each of these warriors
    proved themselves in
    battle, changing their
    own lives, the destiny
    of their people and, in
    some cases, the history
    of the world. We discover
    what drove Spartacus to
    take on the might of Rome
    against seemingly
    impossible odds, and how
    the young Napoleon rose
    to power in dramatic
    fashion at the Siege of
    Toulon.

    Heroes
    & Villains     is more
    than a collection of
    individual biographies.
    By examining the complex
    psychologies of these
    extraordinary men,
    McLynn builds up a
    convincing profile of the
    ultimate warrior.
    Accompanying a major BBC
    television series, this
    brilliant book takes us
    into the minds of the
    greatest warriors in
    history.
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Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles
At El Alamein
    In late June 1942, the
    dispirited and defeated
    British Eighth Army was
    pouring back towards the
    tiny railway halt of El
    Alamein in the western
    desert of Egypt. Tobruk
    had fallen and Eighth
    Army had suffered a
    humiliating defeat at the
    hands of Rommel's
    Panzerarmee Afrika. Yet
    just five months later,
    the famous bombardment
    opened the Eighth Army's
    own offensive which
    destroyed the Axis threat
    to Egypt. Explanations
    for the remarkable change
    of fortune have generally
    been sought in the
    abrasive personality of
    the new army commander
    Lieutenant-General
    Bernard Law Montgomery.
    But as Niall Barr shows
    in this new
    interpretation, based on
    extensive original
    research, the long
    running controversies
    surrounding the
    commanders of Eighth Army
    - Generals Auchinleck and
    Montgomery - and that of
    their legendary opponent,
    Field Marshal Erwin
    Rommel, have often been
    allowed to obscure the
    true nature of the
    Alamein campaign. This
    book is the story of how
    an army learnt from its
    mistakes. The focus on
    personality has blurred
    the continuity of
    experience that saw the
    Eighth Army transform
    itself from a tactically
    inept collection of units
    into a battle-winning
    force. Pendulum of War
    explores how the Eighth
    Army learnt from bitter
    experience to develop
    tactical and operational
    methods that eventually
    mastered the veterans of
    Rommel's Afrika Korps and
    provides a vivid and
    fresh perspective on the
    fighting at El Alamein
    from the early desperate
    days of July to the final
    costly victory in
    November.
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Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles
At El Alamein
    In late June 1942, the
    dispirited and defeated
    British Eighth Army was
    pouring back towards the
    tiny railway halt of el
    Alamein in the western
    desert of Egypt. Tobruk
    had fallen and Eighth
    Army had suffered a
    humiliating defeat at the
    hands of Rommel's
    Panzerarmee Afrika. Yet
    just five months later,
    the famous opening
    bombardment signalled the
    start of Eighth Army's
    own offensive which
    destroyed the Axis threat
    to Egypt. Explanations
    for the remarkable change
    in the fortunes of
    Britain's desert army
    have generally been
    sought in the abrasive
    personality of the new
    army commander
    Lieutenant-General
    Bernard Law Montgomery.
    But as Niall Barr argues
    in this fresh account,
    the long running
    controversies surrounding
    the commanders of Eighth
    Army - Generals
    Auchinleck and Montgomery
    - and that of their
    legendary opponent,
    Field Marshal Erwin
    Rommel, have often been
    allowed to obscure the
    true nature of the
    Alamein campaign. Based
    on extensive original
    research, Pendulum of
    War looks beyond these
    arguments to provide a
    vivid picture of the
    fighting at Alamein from
    the early desperate days
    of July to the final
    costly victory in
    November. This is also
    the story of how an army
    learnt from its mistakes.
    For too long the change
    in personalities at the
    top has blurred the real
    continuity of experience
    that saw the Eighth Army
    transform itself from a
    tactically inept
    collection of units into
    a battle-winning army.
    Pendulum of War explores
    the Eighth Army's
    'learning curve', and
    shows how lessons from
    bitter experience were
    used to develop improved
    tactical methods that
    eventually mastered the
    veterans of Rommel's
    Afrika Korps.
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