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...REASON WHY (287 pp.)-Cec/7 Woodham-Smith-McGraw-Hill...
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...
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...
Kings & Presidents. The year's outstanding biography was Englishwoman Cecil Woodham-Smith's story of the dedicated Florence Nightingale. The glibbest was Hesketh Pearson's quick look at Disraeli in Dizzy. The most unabashedly sensational was Ethel Waters' crudely effective His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Onetime Brigadier Desmond Young wrote an uncritically sympathetic life of his wartime enemy in Rommel, and sales proved that the Afrika Korps' brilliant commander still held a place in U.S. imagination. The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering was a much better book than Rommel, but fat Hermann seemed...
Back from a two-month vacation in Europe, Broadway's Katharine Cornell, who had always said she would not do a movie until the right part came along, announced that she had finally found it in Author Cecil Woodham-Smith's new biography, Florence Nightingale...