Reseña del libro "Forty-One Years in India (Annotated) (en Inglés)"
Complete text of the London edition of 1897, word for wordVolume I of two: Bengal Artillery, Delhi, Lucknow, the MutinyPlates and plans of 1897, restored from several copiesPublisher's foreword and afterword, roll of regiments 1857-58Editorial note on the text, its copies and its corrections"One of the most instructive and engrossing books that have ever been written about India." The Illustrated London News, 16 January 1897India, 1852. Frederick Sleigh Roberts arrives as a young officer of the Bengal Artillery, entering a military world whose apparent stability will be shattered five years later.Volume I carries him through Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow and the campaigns of 1857-58, among Bengal artillerymen, Highlanders, Riflemen, Punjab troops, Sikhs, Gurkhas and the great commanders of the Mutiny generation. At Khudaganj Roberts wins the Victoria Cross; in June 1859 Queen Victoria personally places the decoration in his hands at Buckingham Palace.Yet the Cross is only the beginning. Staff service, frontier operations, transport, intelligence and repeated campaigning transform personal bravery into professional judgement.Before Kandahar came Delhi. Before command came service.GREEN SERIES · AETERNUS