THE REASON WHY

1954

First American Edition, 3rd Printing

By: Cecil Woodham-Smith

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc [New York]

8vo

Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Cloth]

Item Number: 5572

$30.00

Description

The feud between Lucan and Cardigan and the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean War; due to an ambiguous order, 488 out of 673 men were lost. Later reprinted as The Charge of the Light Brigade.

A very good copy, corners bumped, endpapers lightly browned, in price-clipped, ragged dust jacket. (287p., 4 illus., 2 maps, biblio., index.)