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The Indian Mutiny

Af: Julian Spilsbury Engelsk Paperback

The Indian Mutiny

Af: Julian Spilsbury Engelsk Paperback
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An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage

The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred.

Modern Indian accounts call this ''the first war of liberation'', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called ''British'' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars.

Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacted by the British forces, this is a gripping recreation of the greatest crisis of Empire.

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An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage

The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred.

Modern Indian accounts call this ''the first war of liberation'', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called ''British'' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars.

Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacted by the British forces, this is a gripping recreation of the greatest crisis of Empire.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 400
ISBN-13: 9780753824023
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0753824027
Kategori: Mytteri
Udg. Dato: 29 maj 2008
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 132mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 29 maj 2008
Forfatter(e): Julian Spilsbury
Forfatter(e) Julian Spilsbury

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ISBN-13 9780753824023

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 400

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 132mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 29 maj 2008

Oplagsdato 29 maj 2008

Forlag Orion Publishing Co

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