As a result of a meticulous investigation, Terry Brighton reveals to us the legendary charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava, drawng upon the letters that the soldiers sent to their families, the archives of the various regiments that participated in the charge, the press of the time, the personal diaries, mostly unpublished, that the men and women of both sides (British and Russian) kept, and the written orders and records of the trials to which this episode gave rise.