J. M. Gordon’s lively memoirs record a soldier’s life with the Gordon Highlanders, one of the most celebrated Scottish regiments of the British Army. Writing in the frank, anecdote-rich style of Victorian military memoir, Gordon recounts garrison life, colonial campaigns, and the camaraderie of regimental service during the late nineteenth century.
The book offers an engaging ground-level view of the British Army in an era of imperial expansion, and will appeal to readers interested in Scottish military history, Victorian soldiering, or the social history of the armed forces.