Gowing enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers and fought through the Crimean campaign, at the Alma, Inkerman and the siege of Sebastopol, rising from private to sergeant-major. In this much-expanded memoir he describes the cold, hunger and slaughter seen from the ranks, then adds accounts of the Indian Mutiny and later campaigns drawn from comrades and published histories.
A vivid soldier’s-eye view of Victorian war, written with the imperial attitudes of its time. Download the free EPUB.