01961nam a22002537a 4500 20211112144119.0 211112b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780297846512 AL eng 23 954.0317 SPII Julian Spilsbury 10277 Indian Mutiny London Weichfield & Nicolson 2007 xxiv,373 p. HB 24x16 cm. 20.00 £ 20.00 Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny, this 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. Indian History 10278 March on Delhi 10279 Storm of Delhi 10280 Central India 10281 SPILSBRUY (Julian) 10282 ddc GF 220537 220537 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-21 0 954.0317 SPII GF03044 2021-11-12 00:00:00 2021-11-12 GF