【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them… The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to life＜/p＞ ＜p＞The cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War remains one of the most iconic disasters in British military history. Here bestseller John Harris casts a fresh view on the subject, rejecting conventional wisdom.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The calamity was, he argues, brought about by something much more complex than the usually suspected cause: internal rivalry and incompetence. The divisional commander Lord Lucan was an earnest, unpopular man trying to do his best, plagued by the obsessions of an over-cautious commander-in-chief, an inexperienced and hot-headed ‘expert’ and a petulant and unmanageable brigadier itching for glory.＜/p＞ ＜p＞How these facts combined to cause the tragedy is shown in a striking, unputdownable narrative. The story is not just about commanders, but also about the men w...