ISBN: 9780007137534

From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of s… Meer...

From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. Sahib is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of Tommy and Redcoat before it, will be on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast and dusty continent, bore their children, and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died. The book begins with the remarkable story of India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experience of ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains to us why soldiers of the Raj had joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. barrack room' to storming parties assaulting mighty fortresses, cavalry swirling across open plains, and khaki columns inching their way between louring hills. Making full use of extensive and often neglected archive material in the India Office Library and National Army Museum, Sahib will do for the British soldier in India - whether serving a local ruler, forming part of the Indian army, or soldiering with a British regiment - what Tommy has done for the ordinary soldier in the First World War. Media > Book, [PU: William Collins; HarperCollins]<

2006, ISBN: 0007137532

[EAN: 9780007137534], [PU: Harper Collins], COLONIAL & OTHER WARS A BROAD AND SWEEPING MILITARY HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN INDIA, WITH ITS FOCUS, ON MEN WHO SERVED INDIA WOMEN FOLL… Meer...

[EAN: 9780007137534], [PU: Harper Collins], COLONIAL & OTHER WARS A BROAD AND SWEEPING MILITARY HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN INDIA, WITH ITS FOCUS, ON MEN WHO SERVED INDIA WOMEN FOLLOWED THEM ACROSS THAT VAST CONTINENT, BORE THEIR CHILDREN, ALL TOO OFTEN MOPPED BROWS AS THEY DIED. BEGINNING INDIA'S RISE FROM COMMERCIAL ENCLAVE TO GREAT EMPIRE, CLIVE'S VICTORY PLASSEY, THROUGH IMPERIAL 18TH-CENTURY AFGHAN SIKH 1840S, BLOODY TURMOIL MUTINY, FRONTIER CAMPAIGNS AT CENTURY'S END. UL-XXXXXX, Jacket, (Subject: Colonial & Other Wars ) A broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, with its focus, on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast continent, bore their children, and all too often mopped their brows as they died. Beginning with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the 18th-century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. (Published: 2005) (Publisher: Harper Collins) (ISBN: 0007137532) (Pagination: 572pp, illustrations) (Condition: Fine in d/w) UL-XXXXXX, Books<

2006, ISBN: 0007137532

[EAN: 9780007137534], [SC: 0.0], [PU: HarperCollins UK], Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describe… Meer...

[EAN: 9780007137534], [SC: 0.0], [PU: HarperCollins UK], Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present., Books<