Messenger of Death - Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Buttery, David:

ISBN 10: 1844157563 / ISBN 13: 9781844157563

Published by Pen & Sword Military, 2008

About this Item

8°, XII, 221 Seiten mit einigen Bildtafeln, OPbd. mit farbig illustr. Originalumschlag - sehr guter Zustand! Wie neu - 2008. MA7966 ISBN: 1844157563 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 530.

Seller Inventory # 218648

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Messenger of Death - Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844157563
• ISBN 13: 9781844157563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Wie neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 530 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Die Kriege 1813, 1864, 1866 und 1870/71

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Synopsis

Captain Louis Nolan delivered the order that produced one of the most famous blunders in all military history - the Charge of the Light Brigade. Nolan's conduct and the Charge itself have been the subject of intense, sometimes bitter debate ever since. Yet there has been no recent biography of Nolan. He remains an ambiguous, controversial figure to this day. In this fresh and perceptive study, David Buttery attempts to set the record straight. He reassesses the man and looks at his military career, for there was much more to Louis Nolan than his fatal role in the Charge. This sympathetic account of his life throws new light on the Victorian army and its officer class, and on the conduct of the war in the Crimea. It also offers the reader an inside view of the most notorious episode of that war, the Charge at Balaklava on 25 October 1854.

About the Author

David Buttery has established a reputation as a leading historian of nineteenth-century British military history and he has made a particular study of the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.

He has worked as a tour guide for several companies and has led tours of the Waterloo campaign battlefields.