Bugles And A Tiger

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304361564
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bugles and a Tiger written by John Masters and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. BUGLES AND A TIGER is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War. Still very much the army depicted by Kipling, it stands on the threshold of a war that will transform the world. This book is the first of three volumes of autobiography that touched a chord in the post-war world.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474626076
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Past Mandalay written by John Masters and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143064339
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightrunners of Bengal written by John Masters and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1951 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bhowani Junction written by John Masters and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan Perrett
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225202
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against All Odds! written by Bryan Perrett and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. From the Napoleonic Wars to Korea, Bryan Perrett has found a further 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. The events take place in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America; they are linked only by the bravery and devilment which led military men to risk their lives for a last ditch attempt to advance their cause. Attending to the important facts and statistics required by the military historian, the author avoids invention and undue surmise whilst also avoiding the dry lecturing style found in so many volumes describing military strategy. The result is an absorbing, exciting and above all accurate account of astonishing battlefield warfare: narrative history of the sort at which Bryan Perrett excels.

Author : Frank Richards
Publisher : Parthian Books
ISBN 13 : 1910901547
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Soldier Sahib written by Frank Richards and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...A remarkable and fascinating account...' --Phil Carradice, BBC From the author of the celebrated Great War memoir Old Soldiers Never Die, Old Soldier Sahib is Frank Richards' account of his experiences as a Royal Welch Fusilier in India and Burma at the dawn of the 20th century.

Author : Patrick Hennessey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101460059
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Junior Officers' Reading Club written by Patrick Hennessey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest of the club are scattered across the Middle East, they are no longer cheerfully overconfident young recruits, hungering for action and glory. Hennessey captures how boys grow into men amid the frenetic, sometimes exhilarating violence, frequent boredom, and almost overwhelming responsibilities that frame a soldier's experience and the way we fight today. Watch a Video

Author : John Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coromandel!. written by John Masters and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Masters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140014396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bhowani Junction written by John Masters and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of modern India, with a young Anglo-Indian as the heroine.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bugles and a Tiger written by John Masters and published by Viking. This book was released on 1956 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, an Englishman, tells the story of his own life as an officer in the Indian Army.