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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