Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny (1857-59): Including The Relief,Siege And Capture Of Lucknow

This is the best book on the Indian Mutiny I have ever read. Highly detailed that 'takes you there as the events took place' so that you visualise what he saw and experienced, which makes for compelling reading so that I found it difficult to put down.a glossary at the very front of the book to give the definition of the various indian words such as bagh (garden). ghat etc, would be useful, although most of these are explained in the glossary at the conclusion, and a few are in the inbuilt dictionary/Wikipedia.

As I hard only read a book about the Indian mutiny that covered the overall history of this ignored conflict ,I found this book absolutely fascinating.Although it was written in the early 1890's it gives a very good idea of what life was like for a Victorian soldier.The author describes some of the methods used back then in great detail from the attacks on numerous strong holds to the often brutal man to man fighting without trying to glamourise it .A lot of his spelling is in the old English way ea Hindoo and Goorka didn't put me off it actually added something to the book.Anyone who likes the forgotten or lost voices book format will find this book very interesting.

As the title indicates this is not a complete narrative but a series of loose incidents drawn together in a sort of chronological sequence, but interesting in its detail, The barbarity of both sides is horrendous and shocking, This is a useful book to support a straightforward history book

Well written by a clearly intelligent man. Gives a balanced perception of a tragedy. I hope that Britain & modern India can build on 'the best bits' of the past to a better future.

This is one of the best books of it's kind I've ever read: always interesting, sometimes moving, sometimes humorous. It gives a great insight into soldiering in India at that time, and the writer was clearly an intelligent and articulate man.