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The Indian Mutiny (Paperback)
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The Indian Mutiny (Paperback)
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List price R350
Loot Price R320
Discovery Miles 3 200
You Save R30 (9%)
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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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