Colonel de Warrenne of the Bombay Lancers pins his Victoria Cross on his dying wife’s nightdress, and the son she leaves behind is raised for the regiment. Growing up in a cavalry world of honour, polo and scarlet tunics, the boy carries a terror that he must conquer before it unmans him in front of the men he leads.
An early novel by the author of Beau Geste; its imperial attitudes are those of 1914. Download the free EPUB.