Word: woodham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REASON WHY, by Cecil Woodham-Smith, told superbly the story of the charge of the Light Brigade and the incompetent, blundering commanders who consigned the unit to needless destruction. GREAT RIVER, by Paul Horgan, showed what can happen when a fine novelist with a sense of history tackles a congenial subject, in this case the story of the Rio Grande country from prehistoric time...
...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...
...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...
...Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Best and most fascinating account to date of the most glorious snafu in military history: the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (TIME...
Colonelcies by Purchase. To Author Woodham-Smith. who became interested in the subject when she was writing Florence Nightingale (TIME. Feb. 26, 1951), the Charge of the Light Brigade was not an isolated mistake. It was the spectacular culmination of a deplorable British conviction : that any rich aristocrat who wanted to become an officer should be able to buy a colonelcy in a crack regiment. The three aristocrats who may be called the villains of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and whose life stories Au thor Woodham-Smith traces in fascinating detail...