The Reason Why

Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years.

Engineering & Transportation

Woodham-Smith

Engineering

Konecky & Konecky Military Boo

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Jonny Reb & Billis Yask

History

Alexander Hunter

Americas

Ramon Adams in his judicious bibliography, Six Guns and Saddle Leather, praises it as "an excellent history of the lives and exploits of the better-known outlaws of the Northwest." Follows the story of Butch and Sundance to their final showdown in Bolivia as well as the careers of many of their associates.

The Outlaw Trail: Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch

Kelly, Charles

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Hunter, Indian fighter, congressman, hero, Davy Crockett was an American original. Here is his own story told with wit and impressive powers of observation.

Davy Crockett's Own Story

Crockett, Davy

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, bequeathed to the world a singular treasure with Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. He has left us a record of how Alice came to be written: "I distinctly remember, now as I write, how in a desperate attempt to strike out some new line of fairy-lore, I had sent my heroine down a rabbit hole, without the least idea of what was to happen afterwards...Full many a year has slipped away, since that 'golden afternoon' that gave thee birth, but I can call it up as if it were yesterday - the cloudless blue above, the watery mirror below, the boat drifting idly on its way, the tinkle of the drops that fell from the oars, as they waved so sleepily to and fro, and (the one bright gleam of light in all the slumbrous scene) the three eager faces hungry for news of fairy-land and who would not be said 'Nay' to; from whose lips 'Tell us a story, please,' had all the stern immutability of fate."

Alice in Wonderland

CARROLL, LEWIS