LEADER 02574nam 22004213 450 001 9910165131903321 005 20230220084621.0 010 $a1-85959-521-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000001065190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7197247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7197247 035 $a(OCoLC)1370494960 035 $a(BIP)055795374 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001065190 100 $a20230220d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLetters Home From The Crimea $eA Young Cavalryman's Crimea Campaign 210 1$aLondon :$cCopyright Group,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015. 215 $a1 online resource (145 pages) 330 8 $aAmong the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman, who sent home throughout the entire Crimea campaign many detailed letters to his family at Park Hatch in Surrey. Temple Godman went out at the start of the war, took part in the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava and in other engagements. He did not return to England until June 1856, after peace had been declared. He took three very individual horses and despite all his adventures brought them back unscathed. Fresh and easy to read, his letters provide an unrivalled picture of what it was really like to be in the Crimea. His dispatches from the fields of war reveal his wide interests and varied experiences - they range from the pleasures of riding in a foreign landscape, smoking Turkish tobacco, and overcoming boredom by donning comic dress and hunting wild dogs, to the pain of seeing many friends and horses die from battle, disease, deprivation and lack of medicines. He writes scathingly of the generals in charge ('a good many muffs among the chiefs'), inaccurate and 'highly coloured' newspaper reports and, while critical of medical inefficiency regards women in hospitals as a 'sort of fanaticism' - so much for Florence Nightingale. Yet at other times he will employ the pen of an artist in describing a scene, or wax with eloquence on the idiosyncrasies of horses. 606 $aSoldiers 606 $aGreat Britain Army 615 0$aSoldiers. 615 0$aGreat Britain Army. 676 $a947.07380920000003 700 $aWarner$b Phillip$01276878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910165131903321 996 $aLetters Home From The Crimea$93009378 997 $aUNINA