Sahib The British Soldier In India

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts of the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial crown. This is Indian soldiering in peace and war, from the barrack room to storming parties assaulting mighty fortress, cavalry swirling across open plains and khaki columns inching their way between hills.
Using archive material from the India Office Library and National Army Museum, Richard Holmes not only illuminates the lives and feelings of the men who served, but also those of the women who followed them across the vast continent, bore their children, and suffered alongside them in the merciless conditions.