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The Charge

The Charge

Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost

by Mark Adkin
Hardback
Publication Date: 14/03/1996

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This book shatters many long-held conception s of how and why the charge of the Light Brigade happened, a nd who was to blame. This is a gripping and definitive book for the general reader and military buff alike. '
ISBN:
9780850524697
9780850524697
Category:
Christian theology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
14-03-1996
Publisher:
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
248x165x30mm
Weight:
0.63kg
Mark Adkin

Major Mark Adkin was commissioned into The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment in 1956 and served with it and The Royal Anglian Regiment in Germany, Malaya, Mauritius and Aden. On leaving the British Army he joined the Overseas Civil Service and was posted to the Solomon Islands. Transferred to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, he was one of the last British District Officers anywhere in the world.

His final overseas post was as a contract officer for five years with the Barbados Defence Force, and it was as the Caribbean operations staff officer that he participated in the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. He now lives in Bedford and has written books on military subjects, including Urgent Fury, The Last Eleven? and The Charge, all published by Pen & Sword Books.

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