Название: Cardigan: A Life of Lord Cardigan of BalaclavaАвтор: Donald Thomas
Издательство: The Viking Press
Год: 1975
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 369
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 203.15 MB
Язык: английский
James Thomas Brudenell, Seventh Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), dragoon, hussar, huntsman, landholder, husband, adulterer, sometime Member of Parliament, duelist, probably the most hated and adulated aristocrat of his time, waited almost sixty years for his moment of glory (or disaster). When it came, it took place in an obscure Crimean valley, lasted twenty minutes, and was dubbed The Charge of the Light Brigade. In this book Donald Thomas covers Cardigan's whole life as a controversial figure in early Victorian Britain.