24 Hours at Balaclava - Softcover

Kershaw, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750988886 ISBN 13: 9780750988889

Publisher: The History Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Battle of Balaclava, 1854, is one of the Crimean War’s stand out battles. The Russians took advantage of an ill-manned area near Balaclava, forcing the British back to the Thin Red Line. A heroic and unlikely victory from the heavy brigade’s charge halted the Russian advance, putting them on the defensive. However, that was before a misinterpreted order from Raglan led to a final Allied cavalry charge, and one of the most famous and ill-fated events in British military history.Here acclaimed military historian Robert Kershaw creates a vivid, intimate account of this famed battle, using human stories from eyewitness accounts, diaries and letters to illustrate the 24 hours of the Battle of Balaclava, and to place the reader shoulder to shoulder with the cavalry as it charged.

About this title

About the Author:

ROBERT KERSHAW is a graduate of Reading University and joined the Parachute Regiment in 1973. After over thirty years in the army, serving in Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War and Bosnia, he retired to become a full-time military history author as well as a consultant military analyst in 2006. Among his outstanding works of narrative non-fiction are Street in Arnhem and 24 Hours at Waterloo. www.robertjkershaw.com

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0750988886
• ISBN 13: 9780750988889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288