through the terrible winter of 1854­1855. For the first 
     time in history, through reading the dispatches of Russell, 
     the public had realized “with what majesty the British 
     soldier fights.” And these heroes were dead. The men who 
     had stormed the heights of Alma, charged with the Light 
     Brigade at Balaclava . . . had perished of hunger and 
     neglect. Even horses which had taken part in the Charge 
     of the Light Brigade had starved to death.
     (Lonely Crusader , Cecil Woodham-Smith, McGraw-Hill)

     The horrors that William Howard Russell relayed by wire to 
The Times  were normal in British military life. He was the first 
war correspondent, because the telegraph gave that immediate 
and inclusive dimension of “human interest” to news that does 
not belong to a “point of view.” It is merely a comment on our 
absentmindedness and general indifference that after more