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The Indian Mutiny
by John Harris
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was a huge and bloody struggle, a 'Devil's
Wind' of retribution and death that swept across the jungles, hills and
parched plains of the Indian sub-continent.
The author vividly recaptures the experience and atmosphere of the
time - the smell of battle, the tired men and forced marches, the sieges
and the appalling massacres - all enacted beneath the relentless, cruel
heat of the Indian sun. It was a war of treachery and incompetence,
desperately fought without mercy on either side, but a war of heroism and
endurance. It through up remarkable personalities: Nicholson, who
recaptured Delhi: Henry Lawrence, the defender of Lucknow; 'Holy'
Havelock, the bible-thumping General who relieved Lucknow only to find
himself trapped; and the dour uncompromising Colin Campbell, who was sent
from England to return India to sanity.
The Mutiny transpired to be the first significant crack in the
solidly built rigid structure of the British Empire and at its conclusion,
and thereafter, the British were never able to feel quite as secure again.
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The Frontier Ablaze
by Michael Barthop
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June 1897 the ambush of a British-officered column by Madda Khel Waziris
marked the outbreak of the greatest Indian frontier war ever fought by the
British Raj. Goaded by their priests, nearly all the Parthan tribes rose as
one, across 200 miles of some of the worst campaigning country on earth.
It would take eight months , and more than 60 battalions supported by
cavalry, artillery and engineers, to put down the great Parthan rising;
and the enemy remained uncowed and deadly dangerous to the end.
For
a hundred years the North-West Frontier was the arena in which generations
of British and Indian soldiers followed their calling. For many these arid
mountains would be the battlefield which dominated their whole lives. Even
for those who went on to fight in the two world wars their frontier
campaigns would live in their memories forever, at once fearful and
invigorating. Frontier fighting found out the best and the worst in a man
or battalion; there could be no pretence, no shrinking from
responsibility, in face of the wolfish rush of Pathans. Proud,
independent, a brilliantly skilled mountain fighter, as brave and as cruel
as any Apache, the Pathan has never been finally pacified by any invader
in history; and in 1897 the tribes could put 50,000 men into the field,
many of them armed with modern rifles.
Michael
Barthop's fascinating account of the operations of the Tochi, Malakand,
Buner, Mohmand and Tirah Field Forces is the first to be devoted solely to
the whole course of the Great Frontier War 1897-98. He describes its
country, its peoples, the British and the Indian soldiers who fought
there, their weapons and their tactics. Here are epics to stand beside any
campaign in history: the defense of remote forts by handfuls of desperate
defenders; bloody ambushes and grim hard fought retreats; killing marches
and disease ridden camps in extremes of heat and cold; reckless frontal
assaults; and the application of expert military skills by seasoned
commanders, in terrain where only foot sloggers and pack mules could go.
Above
all, perhaps, this book reminds us of and age of warfare - familiar to the
grandfathers of many still living - when the balance between victory and
disaster could be turned by the bravery and resourcefulness of individual
junior officers and soldiers, often facing their enemy hand-to-hand.
Michael
Barthop's text is illustrated with more than 100 rare photographs and
sketches, detailed maps, and eight meticulous colour plates specially
painted for this book by the respected military artist Douglas Anderson. |
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Plassey 1757, Clive
of India's Finest Hour by Peter Harrington
Set against a background of intrigue, oriental
dissimulation and downright treachery, the story of Plassey has all the
ingredients of fiction - Anglo-French rivalry for domination of trade in
the vastly rich subcontinent; the 'atrocity' of the Black Hole of
Calcutta; a fog-enshrouded march through the very middle of a Bengali
army; and finally a battle won by will-power and nerve against enormous
odds. Peter Harrington prefaces his colourful account with the story of
the siege of Arcot, during which Clive won his spurs.
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30th Punjabis by James
Lawford & Michael Youens
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Osprey MA031.
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The Indian Mutiny by
Christopher Wilkinson-Latham & G A Embleton
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Osprey MA67.
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North-West
Frontier 1837-1947 by Robert Wilkinson-Latham & Angus McBride
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The Pomp of
Yesterday - The Defence of India and the Suez Canal 1798-1918 by General
Sir William Jackson
Describes how the control of the roads to India, by land and sea was
for many years a major preoccupation of British defence.
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Queen Victoria's
Enemies (3): India by Ian Knight & Richard Scollins
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