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Roll Call on Tennyson...
...Charge of the Light Brigade and TIME'S [May 10] review of The Reason Why: It's too obvious to be another "story of a blunder" . . . when you reported that "some 700 horsemen" rode, etc., but Alfred, Lord Tennyson sent in only "six hundred." At least, a footnote to keep us straight...
...thin red line"), and the brilliant and successful charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. But these are as nothing in British eyes compared with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, in which some 700 horsemen rode unprotestingly into what every trooper knew was a trap. As Tennyson hymned...
...Even in Tennyson's day, everyone knew that the order to charge had been a hideous mistake. But publicly, "the reason why" was long a mystery. Mrs. Cecil Woodham-Smith's book is the best untraveling of the old story...
...terrible charge, "he was a hero. Army welfare and army education, army recreation, sports and physical training, the health services, all came into being as a result of the Crimea." Moreover, the practice of purchasing commissions was abolished. And that is why, for more reasons than were known to Tennyson, readers of this admirable history may say with...