Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
Little War, Big Mess
By David Gilmour
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856
Trevor Royle
St. Martin's, 564 pp., $35.00
The Crimean War left the world a curious jumble of bequests: trench warfare, war correspondents, power to the press to mobilize public opinion for or against fighting, Florence Nightingale, the Victoria Cross, two garments of doubtful sartorial value (the balaclava helmet—much favored by late-twentieth-century terrorists—and the rather more domestic cardigan), the most famous and futile cavalry charge in British history, and a very famous, very bad, and very inaccurate commemorative poem, Alfred Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade':
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