A startlingly intimate view of war, showing all perspectives. Dawson includes officers' letters, but includes many letters written by private soldiers and junior noncommissioned officers belonging to the newly-literate masses. 'Letters from the Light Brigade' is a book worth reading, if only to remind readers how much things have changed since the 1850s, yet how much people have remained the same.

Galveston County Daily News (USA)

Anthony Dawson is less interested in the long-running blame game than in giving us an insight into the experience of the relatively lower ranks. We are presented with hundreds of letters from privates, trumpeters, corporals and sergeants. Dawson has admirably traced many previously unpublished or obscure accounts from a series of archives and 160-year old newspapers.

The Weekly Standard

The author has made a very god selection of previously unpublished letters that were written within eight days of the battle. This is primary source material that provides unique insight.

Firetrench

As on can imagine, the arguments surrounding the Light Brigade and Captain Nolan are all debated in full and the novel approach to the subject makes reading this fine book a real pleasure.

Bulletin - Military Historical Society

The author achieves an attractive blend of narrative and letters, with a wealth of detail from minor tactics to horse management.
A delightful book, of appeal to both the wargamer and the historian.

Miniature Wargames with Battlegames

Dozens of graphic first-hand accounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade emerge to shed new light on the military blunder immortalised by tennyson's poem

The Telegraph

Letters written in the days after doomed mission of Charge of the Light Brigade reveal troops thought orders were 'perfect madness' but describe bravery of horsemen.

Daily Mail