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5 unusual facts about Terry Brighton


21st Lancers

Brighton, Terry, The Last Charge: the 21st Lancers and the Battle of Omdurman.

Terry Brighton

He is best known for his research on the Charge of the Light Brigade, published in Hell Riders: the Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade.

According to the author’s website this makes good a promise made to Richard Madely on the British TV chat show Richard & Judy that he would “write the novel” of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Although best known for his research on the Crimean War, according to Publishers Weekly it was his later work on the Second World War generals Patton, Montgomery and Rommel that moved him “into the top rank of general audience military writers”.

His parishes included St Martin’s in Hereford, where he stood in as chaplain to the SAS and first developed an interest in military history.



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