This is the story of the first year of the Crimean War in which the British army, some 30,000 men, were commanded by Lord Raglan whose last experience of battle had been at Waterloo, forty years before. Then the French had been the enemy, now they were allies. The campaign was one of terrible hardships, one which quickly degenerated into a series of military disasters resulting from sheer incompetence at the highest level - and that includes the government at home. The despatches from The Times reporter, William Russell, played a large part in bringing down the government of Lord Aberdeen. The latter made Raglan the scapegoat in an effort to save its neck. He died in the Crimea in July 1855, and his death was the cause of great grief in the army. Florence Nightingale said of him: ‘It was impossible not to love him.’ He was not a great general, but he was, as one of his soldiers said, ‘a dear old Christian Gentleman’, who had ‘broken his heart.’

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Product Code:	4005
Author:	by Christopher Hibbert
Format:	1999 edn SB (first pub 1961). x + 338pp with 11 b/w ilus
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