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Terry Brighton studied philosophy at Lancaster University and theology at Birmingham University before being ordained an Anglican priest.
( “An outstanding work that strips away much of the nonse...)
“An outstanding work that strips away much of the nonsense that has surrounded a tragic military blunder . . . a splendid examination.” —Booklist On October 25, 1854, acting in defense of their base at Balaklava during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and brutal charge in military history. Seven hundred men armed with sabers and lances charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. In the slaughter that followed, many fell to roundshot and shell. Those who survived took a terrible revenge on the enemy. In this vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody melee that followed, Terry Brighton draws on twenty years of research to tell the story in the words of the survivors themselves for the first time. Hell Riders takes the reader closer than ever before to the experience of charging into the valley of death, and reveals the horrific truth about the charge of the Light Brigade exactly as the survivors lived it.
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('They should put Montgomery and Patton and Rommel in the ...)
'They should put Montgomery and Patton and Rommel in the same ring and take off the gloves and let 'em go at it' Bill Mauldin, American GI In the Second World War, Great Britain, the United States and Germany each had one commander who stood out from the rest: Bernard Montgomery, George Patton and Erwin Rommel. In Masters of Battle, all three are 'put in the same ring' and allowed to 'go at it' against a backdrop of the great armoured battles of North Africa, the invasions of Sicily and Italy, the Normandy landings and the push through France and Belgium into Germany. Through the mutual respect of the arch-enemies Monty and Rommel, and the mutual animosity of the allies Monty and Patton, Masters of Battle presents the Second World War as it was experienced by its three most flamboyant, controversial and influential commanders.
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(On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Bri...)
On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. This vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody mêlée that followed, by an author with unique access to regimental archives, is told largely in the words of the survivors themselves. Terry Brighton takes the reader closer than ever before to the experience of charging down the Valley of Death.
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(The desert battle of Omdurman in the Sudan on 2 September...)
The desert battle of Omdurman in the Sudan on 2 September 1898 was seen as Britain's revenge for the death of Gordon at Khartoum. The most famous incident of the battle was the charge of the 21st Lancers, generally accepted as the last full cavalry charge. Three Victoria Crosses were awarded and the Queen granted her own name to the regiment. This study, published to coincide with the centenary, tells the story of the Lancer's bloody ride, drawn from eyewitness letters of officers and men.
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Terry Brighton studied philosophy at Lancaster University and theology at Birmingham University before being ordained an Anglican priest.
His parishes included Street Martin’s in Hereford, where he stood in as chaplain to the SAS and first developed an interest in military history. After leaving the church he worked on the curatorial staff of the Queen"s Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, for which he remains a consultant. He is best known for his research on the Charge of the Light Brigade, published in Hell Riders: the Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade.
He used survivors’ accounts, many of them never before published, to give the soldiers" viewpoint of this famous cavalry action.
He argued that the Charge was not the military disaster it appeared, and controversially claimed that it could be considered “an astounding success”. In October 2004, on the 150th anniversary of the Charge, he broadcast an account of this action from the Crimea to the United States. live on National Public Radio. Although best known for his research on the Crimean War, according to Publishers Weekly it was his later work on the Second World War generals Patton, Montgomery and Rommel that moved him “into the top rank of general audience military writers”.
The book uses the personal writings of the generals to argue that the explosive relationship between the allies Patton and Montgomery had a greater effect on the conduct and course of the war than the respectful relationship between the enemies Patton and Rommel. He is currently working on his first novel, The Necessity of Killing.
According to the author’s website this makes good a promise made to Richard Madeley on the British television chat show Richard & Judy that he would “write the novel” of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
('They should put Montgomery and Patton and Rommel in the ...)
(On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Bri...)
(The desert battle of Omdurman in the Sudan on 2 September...)
( “An outstanding work that strips away much of the nonse...)
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