The Reason Why: Men at War

LIKE NEW DJ, V/G to LIKE NEW BOOK.1995 Smithmark hardcover, Cecil Woodham-Smith (Florence Nightingale) Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed immortality impossible in a more cynical age. - Goodreads