Crisis of the Raj: The Revolt of 1857 through British Lieutenants' Eyes, HBdj VG

Description: Crisis of the Raj: The Revolt of 1857 through British Lieutenants' Eyes WAYNE BROEHL JR347 PAGES, ILLUSWayne Broehl had what seemed to be a good idea: He assembled a collection of letters written during the Indian Mutiny by four British lieutenants and the mother of one of them and used them to tell the story of the mutiny.The lieutenants were in the Indian Army in the Bengal Presidency, where the mutiny occurred, and all were 25 years old, having been born in 1832 within a six-month period. Three had attended the Honourable East India Company's military school at Adiscombe together, and three were the sons of army officers.One of the four lieutenants, from whom Broehl found 30 letters, was Frederick Roberts, who won the Victoria Cross in the course of the mutiny, went on to win fame in Afghanistan and South Africa, and became one of the most renowned soldiers of the late Victorian era. The others had less distinguished careers.George Cracklow, who wrote 58 of the letters, was, like Roberts, a gunner. The author found 100 letters (which for unexplained reasons he consolidated into 34) from Arthur Lang, an engineer officer. Ninety-five letters were from Thomas Watson, Bengal Native Infantry, and 34 from his mother to him.None of the letters is quoted in its entirety. Bits and pieces, most quite short, are woven into the story of the mutiny. Together they present a more or less accurate picture of the way the war must have looked to subalterns. Some of the descriptions of captured mutineers tied to the muzzles of cannons and blown to pieces are hair raising, as is the grisly story of a mutineer caught by Sikhs who was bayoneted, beaten and then, while still alive, baked over an open fire. Lang once received "an agreeable order to run up a rough gallows to accommodate twelve men at once, in the shortest possible time ..."The hardships, the cruelties and the anxieties of the officers come through clearly. New Terms ************************************************************ THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING WITH US - WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS. INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE NOTICE ! AS OF MAY 14th, 2007, THE US POSTAL SYSTEM HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED INTERNATIONAL MAIL RATES - ALL SURFACE MAIL HAS BEEN DROPPED, THERE WILL ONLY BE TWO CLASSES OF AIR MAIL= PRIORITY OR FIRST CLASS. Due to increasingly higher U.S. postal rates, and the many packages that we have lost or damaged, on International Mail, we now only will ship internationally via E-Bay’s Global shipping program, which goes by courier services. Although expensive, many times they are cheaper than what I could send it for by US Mail – and much more secure. 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