ISBN: 9780007370344

(This edition includes a limited number of illustrations.)From celebrated military historian Richard Holmes, bestselling author of ‘Tommy’ and ‘Redcoat’, the rich … Mehr…

(This edition includes a limited number of illustrations.)From celebrated military historian Richard Holmes, bestselling author of ‘Tommy’ and ‘Redcoat’, the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire.‘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 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. 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. The book examines Indian soldiering in peace and war, from Kipling’s ‘snoring 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 World War I. The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 HarperPress Military & Maritime History G, u, r, k, h, a, s, ;, , E, m, p, i, r, e, ;, , I, n, d, i, a, n, , A, r, m, y, ;, , M, e, r, c, e, n, a, r, y, ;, , E, a, s, t, , I, n, d, i, a, , C, o, m, p, a, n, y, ;, , K, h, y, b, e, r, , P, a, s, s, ;, , C, l, i, v, e, ;, , I, m, p, e, r, i, a, l, i, s, m, ;, , P, l, a, s, s, e, y, ;, , R, a, j, ;, , C, o, l, o, n, i, a, l, i, s, m, ;, , K, i, p, l, i, n, g, ;, , N, o, r, t, h, , W, e, s, t, , F, r, o, n, t, i, e, r, ;, , S, i, k, h, , W, a, r, ;, , A, f, g, h, a, n, , W, a, r, ;, , R, o, b, e, r, t, , C, l, i, v, e 9780007137541 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English History, HarperCollins Publishers<

ISBN: 9780007370344

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's… Mehr…

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown.This is a stunning account of Indian soldiering in peace and war, from the barrack rooms to the cavalry swirling across open plains.Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes not only illuminates the lives and feelings of the men who served, but also those of the women who followed them across a vast continent, bore their children, and suffered alongside them in the merciless conditions.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > Asian history, HarperCollins Publishers<

ISBN: 9780007370344

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's… Mehr…

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown.This is a stunning account of Indian soldiering in peace and war, from the barrack rooms to the cavalry swirling across open plains.Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes not only illuminates the lives and feelings of the men who served, but also those of the women who followed them across a vast continent, bore their children, and suffered alongside them in the merciless conditions.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > European history, HarperCollins Publishers<

ISBN: 9780007370344

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's… Mehr…

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humamities > Regional & national history > Asian history, HarperCollins Publishers<

2011, ISBN: 9780007370344

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