A bearskin's Crimea: Colonel Henry Percy VC and his brother officers ([New ed.].)

Using much previously untapped source material A Bearskin?s Crimea is a blow-by-blow account of the Grenadier Guards? experiences in the Crimean War. The principal character, The Honourable Henry Percy, a member of the distiguished and powerful Northumberland family (known as ?The Kings of the North?), was present at all the major battles of that appalling conflict: The Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and the Seige of Sebastopol. Percy was no ordinary soldier: not only was he a shrewd observer with a skilled pen but a thoroughly capable and courageous officer.

This is borne out by his winning the Victoria Cross and his rapid promotion.