Reading aloud, thanks to the free online library, a super book called The Reason Why. It is the story of the charge of the light brigade, with marvellous background on the unlovely personalities concerned. Title comes from Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade," published six weeks after the event and containing the unforgettable lines:
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Beautifully written, interesting background on the Irish potato famine, appalling insights into 19th century army functioning, and a page turner. And, as a bit of trivia, Lord Cardigan, who led the ill-fated charge and survived had a woollen jacket named after him. The origin of the humble cardy.