The Reason Why (Time Reading Program Special Edition)

Cecil Woodham-Smith; Gordon A. Craig (Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0809437198 / ISBN 13: 9780809437191

Published by Time-Life Books, Inc, 1982

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Minor yellowing to book block, label of former owner on inside cover, binding tight with no spine creases.

Seller Inventory # 86028

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Reason Why (Time Reading Program Special Edition)
• Publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809437198
• ISBN 13: 9780809437191
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - World

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Synopsis

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 an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

About the Author

Cecil Blanche Woodman-Smith was a British historian and author of popular history books on the Victorian era, including The Great Hunger, Queen Victoria, The Reason Why, and Thin Men of Hadda. She was appointed CBE in 1960, and received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland and the University of St. Andrews. She died in 1977.