HELL RIDERS:The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj (oil painting,front: 'Charge of the Light Brigade' by Richard Caton Woodville and watercolour,rear: Sergeant O'Hara at the Guns,by Orlando Norie; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Slight,miniscule rubbing/chip to head of spine/backstrip and tiny,closed tear/nick to foot of same - no other nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Top,upper corner minimally bumped,other corners sharp though. Bright,clean,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,red+yellow headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dwq/dj,1st edn,viii-xxiipp+ 4-370pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus/maps lists/tables, acknowledgements,an introduction,4 chapters and a conclusion, appendices(2),a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication,10 b/w maps (total) includes 6 single pp and 2pp with 2 maps per page,16pp b/w contemporary illus/photographs between pp66/7 and pp274/5 and 8pp colour illus/drawings between pp178/9 respectively. Into the jaws of death,into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred. . On 25 October 1854,during the Crimean War,the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history.Almost seven hundred men armed with sabre and lance charged straight at the muzzles of the Russian cannons.In the slaughter that followed,many fell to roundshot and shell fired from the front and from both sides.Those who survived took a terrible revenge on the enemy. This vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody melee that followed,by an author with unique access to regimental archives,is told largely in the words of the survivors themselves.Terry Brighton brings twenty years' research to life,sets aside our most cherished historical theories about what happened and who was to blame,and asks what can be concluded from the written accounts of the cavalrymen who rode hell's mile. 'Hell Riders' shatters many popular myths about the charge,and names the officer the men believed was to blame for the blunder.Its most extraordinary conclusion is that far from being a miserable failure,the charge must be considered an astonishing success.This book takes the reader closer than ever before to the experience of charging down the valley of death,and reveals the horrific truth about the charge of the Light Brigade exactly as the survivors told it. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!