An Eye Witness Account of the Indian Mutiny by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar

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There are very few parallels of a book which enjoyed such immense popularity. It is now being reprinted after 85 years in India. It gives a most authentic and eye-witness account of the rise and fall of the military fortunes of the East India Company during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 and with it also the meteoric rise of the author from a Subaltern to the Commander-in-Chief of Indian Army with a grateful homage of a country which conferred upon him a peerage and the highest military rank of Field Marshal. He was the recipient of Victoria Cross at a tender age when he was still in his twenties, displaying incredible courage and bravery against gravest danger to personal safety during Sepoy Mutiny. (The first war of Indias? independence). The book is packed with crowded events and it would not be practicable to condense all the tumultuous events of Sepoy Mutiny, the Second Afghan War, the military expeditions to Lushai Hills and War with Burma in which the author participated as one who controlled and directed the events which shaped the destiny of the age.