The Indian Mutiny

"The author vividly recaptures the experience and atmosphere of the time -- the smell of battle, the tired men and forced marches, the sieges and the appalling massacres -- all enacted beneath the relentless, cruel heat of the Indian sun. It was a war of treachery and incompetence, desperately fought without mercy on either side, but a war of heroism and endurance"--Page 4 of cover.