HOLMES, Richard SAHIB. The British Soldier in India 1750-1914 , London: HarperCollins, 2005.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 0007137532 Book and dustjacket in fine condition. Pictorial endpapers. xxxiii, 572pp, Including Glossary, Bibliography, Notes and Index. With 20 colour and 29 black-and-white illustrations, and 3 maps. Beginning with 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. 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. Explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. (9½"h x 6¼"w) (24cms x 16cms) approx. (Book ref. 6909)  £23.00

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