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Commonknowledge: Letters Home from the Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign (Military Memoirs) by Richard Temple Godman
Commonknowledge: Letters Home from the Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign (Military Memoirs) by Richard Temple Godman | LibraryThing Added details for this book at LibraryThing. #Reading #Letters #Books #Autobiographies #War #History #LibraryThing
Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War: Staying Alive
BBC iPlayer - Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War: Staying Alive So a day after I finish the only book I have EVER read about The Crimean War - here Sebastapol and Balaklava are covered in this insightful documentary. #Documenaries #History #War #Crimea
“SERIOUS punch-ups (which he thinks "disgraceful) and getting captured by Bedouin who "in general...are not particular as to life." #Crimea”
“"I see during the night the brown horse has bitten a bit out of my chestnut horse's nose,..." - TEMPLE GODMAN 17 Nov 1855 #Crimea #Horses”
“Earlier there was some criticism of Generals in their seventies, the backlash with yoofs obviously wasn't helpful. #Crimea #Letters”
“Oh yikes ! He's explaining that these kids couldn't lord it over the men and, inexperienced, got their brains beaten out with rocks. #Crimea”
“Sep 10 1855 Temple is referring to new officers (I think they BUY their rank) as "children" HE is 23 without "drill or discipline". #Crimea”
Grossmith as Gen Stanley.jpg
File:Grossmith as Gen Stanley.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1879. So it's Crimean Vet's that'd be bein' ribbed/tickled/ticked off. This one has Temple's tache & Rik Mayall's face. #Crimea #Lookalikes #Musicals #Lyrics #History #Uniforms
“A lot is made of the Xmas WW1 ceasefire, Crimean fighter Godman writes of pauses required for burial of the dead during which.. #War #Crimea”
“Interesting that the Beeb plucked PART of my favourite section of the book of letters. P'raps it is the peachiest prize. #Godman #Crimea”
“...and it makes you wonder about the roots of mounted militia, of chivalry and the chevalier - what you would DO to save your skin. #Crimea”
“Real sense of atmosphere and IMMEDIACY with Temple Godman's letters from the Crimea. They pre-date military CENSORSHIP...”
“"...I think they will funk to cross swords with us after their licking." - TEMPLE GODMAN Nov 2 1854 #Slang #Eton #Schoolboy #Army #Crimea”
“Right. The good light is gawn so back to The Crimea and the Cholera that is STILL widespread and can STILL KILL in three hours. #Dehydration”
