On New Year’s Day 1857, Ensign Ted Russell of the Bengal Native Infantry is bored and irritable at his Punjab station of Aurungpore. Within months the Mutiny breaks out, and Ted is fighting in the arsenal, defending the Commissioner’s house, falling into the hands of the fanatical Pir Baksh and marching with the Guides, while the regiment’s cad complicates a question of honour.
A classic boys’ adventure of the Raj; its view of the 1857 rising is entirely that of the British side. Download the free EPUB.