Recreates superbly the fantastic personalities and events behind the immortal Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. It contains the whole personal history of two ruthless English aristocrats related by marriage - Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan - whose wealth, egocentricity and loathing for each other, ably abetted by the purchase system for advancement in the British Army at the time, were directly responsible for the events which culminated in the military disaster at Balaclava. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Crimean War, Charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava, Lord Lucan, Lord Cardigan, English History, Military, Turkish History, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria, Sebastopol, Lord George Paget, Jews, Hussars, Cholera, Cavalry, Sir Colin Campbell, Richard Airey).