Indian Mutiny - Hardcover

Harris, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 024610600X ISBN 13: 9780246106001

Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1974

Synopsis

The Indian mutiny of 1857 was a huge and bloody struggle, a 'Devil's Wind' of retribution and death that swept across the jungles, hills and parched plains of the Indian sub-continent. The author vividly recaptures the experience and atmosphere of the time - the smell of battle, the tired men and forced marches, the sieges and the appalling massacres - all enacted beneath the relentless, cruel heat of the Indian sun. It was a war of treachery and incompetence, desperately fought without mercy on either side, but a war of heroism and endurance. It threw up remarkable personalities: Nicholson, who recaptured Delhi; Henry Lawrence, the defender of Lucknow; 'Holy' Havelock, the bible-thumping general who relieved Lucknow only to find himself trapped; and the dour uncompromising Colin Campbell, who was sent from England to return India to sanity.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 024610600X
• ISBN 13: 9780246106001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205