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The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Indian Mutiny about?
An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred. Modern Indian accounts call this 'the first war of liberation', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called 'British' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars. Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacte
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julian Spilsbury
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780297856306
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (32 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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