Bugles and a Tiger

Author: John Masters
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474626092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. BUGLES AND A TIGER is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War. Still very much the army depicted by Kipling, it stands on the threshold of a war that will transform the world. This book is the first of three volumes of autobiography that touched a chord in the post-war world.

The Road Past Mandalay

Author: John Masters
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474626076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.

Bhowani Junction

Author: John Masters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Nightrunners of Bengal

Author: John Masters
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143064339
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 3

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COROMANDEL!

Author: JOHN MASTERS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Old Soldier Sahib

Author: Frank Richards
Publisher: Parthian Books
ISBN: 1910901547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
'...A remarkable and fascinating account...' --Phil Carradice, BBC From the author of the celebrated Great War memoir Old Soldiers Never Die, Old Soldier Sahib is Frank Richards' account of his experiences as a Royal Welch Fusilier in India and Burma at the dawn of the 20th century.

Bhowani Junction

Author: John Masters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An authentic novel of life of a little Anglo-Indian society centred in Bhowani Junction.

Waging War in Waziristan

Author: Andrew M. Roe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
A career soldier with on-the-ground experience presents a gripping history of the imperial British experience in Waziristan, a remote area of Pakistan. Distills the hard-earned British experience and offers some potentially useful lessons for the West and its current troubles in the same region--once described as the "epicenter of terrorism" and reputedly the hiding place of Osama bin Laden.

Armies of the Raj

Author: Byron Farwell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...

Heart of War

Author: John Masters
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448214785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 875

Book Description
January 1 1916: Europe is bleeding to death as the corpses rot from Poland to Gallipoli in the cruel grip of the Great War... Heart of War follows the fate and fortunes of the Rowland family and those people bound up in their lives: the Cate squirearchy, the Strattons who manage the Rowland owned factory, and the humble, multi-talented Gorse family. In this all-consuming conflict, not a single family will remain untouched. With Quentin and Boy Rowland fighting in the trenches and Guy flying the skies above, it would be a miracle for the whole family to come home untouched... During the years 1916 and 1917, the appalling slaughter of the Somme and Passchendaele cuts deep into the hearts of British people as military conscription looms over Britain for the first time in a thousand years. As babies are born, fathers, sons and brothers killed, and women strike out in the work-place, Britain looks to never be the same again. First published in 1980 – book two in a three volume saga including Now, God be Thanked, and By The Green of Spring – Heart of War explores the emotional turmoil of Britain at war from every angle: from the eyes of the upper class aristocracy who are losing their grip on power, to the lower classes rising up as they fight alongside those previously thought their betters.