The Indian Mutiny - Hardcover

Spilsbury, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297846515 ISBN 13: 9780297846512

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

By 1857, the British East India Company was India’s de facto ruler, having won the subcontinent by subterfuge and force of arms. Discontent was rising however, and in the following Spring, entire regiments of Indian troops turned on their British overlords and challenged the global trading powerhouse in open warfare. The brutal struggle that followed would forever break the Company’s hold on India, and send shock waves reverberating across the British Empire. This sweeping, true-life drama combines powerful eyewitness accounts and painstaking historical investigation to present an intimate portrait of the British troops and the Sikhs, Gurkhas, and Afghan who fought alongside them, often against terrible odds. This is living history that reads like the finest action-adventure story!

About this title

About the Author:

Julian Spilsbury is the military obituarist for the DAILY TELEGRAPH and a script writer for THE BILL, TAGGART and CASUALTY. He is the author of several thrillers including NIGHT OF THE BEAR and VISION OF THE HUNTER.

Review:

'a real page turner... based on shocking but compelling eyewitness accounts, this is a vivid recreation of the 'greatest crisis of Empire'.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'a lucid, readable account' TLS

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0297846515
• ISBN 13: 9780297846512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373