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24 Hours at Balaclava: 25 October 1854 - Voices from the Battlefield (Paperback)
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24 Hours at Balaclava: 25 October 1854 - Voices from the Battlefield (Paperback)
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In 1854 Britain and France were at war to save 'poor little
Turkey', the crumbling Ottoman Empire, from the menace of Russian
expansionism. On 25 October they were nine days into what would
become an eleven-month siege, with little to show for it. Suddenly,
from behind them came the unmistakeable sound of cannon. The
Russians had arrived. Vastly outnumbered, the British gained an
unlikely upper hand with the charge of the Heavy Brigade and the
efforts of the Thin Red Line. But then, within two hours of
achieving near victory, the British squandered it in dramatic style
with the charge of the Light Brigade. Using eyewitness accounts,
letters and diaries, acclaimed military historian Robert Kershaw
presents a new, intimate look at the Battle of Balaclava, from the
perspective of the men who 'saw little and knew even less'. Come
down from the Heights and see the real story of one of the most
ill-fated military expeditions in British history.
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