Contemporary Review, September 22nd, 2006
Sahib: The British Soldier in India. Richard Holmes. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxxiii + 572 pages. ISBN 0-00-713753-2.
It was, writes Richard Holmes, undeniably a bloody business. The British conquest of India, Burma and Ceylon took a dozen substantial wars and many lesser ones including constant operations on the North West Frontier of India. It all combined, as he says, to give soldiering in India a sharp edge. Wars won or lost on many fronts, from China to Abyssinia, cost Britain dearly. The battle of Maiwand in the Second Anglo-Afghan war in which nearly one thousand office...
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