THE INDIAN MUTINY
‘The book for those of us who are fascinated by the subject’ BBC History magazine
‘Formidable. A brilliant display of literary history’ Scotsman
‘Enthralling. David tells the story of the mutiny’s violent course and final suppression with almost cinematographic vividness and sweep’ John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
‘Masterly history… David peoples his pages with a fascinating cast of characters and keeps the narrative rattling along at an irresistable pace’ Spectator
‘Compelling. We have been waiting for a comprehensive and definitive history of the Indian Mutiny – with this excellent and never less than enthralling account David has produced just that’ Trevor Royle, Sunday Herald
‘Brilliant… few historians can rival David as an analyst’ Frank McLynn, Independent on Sunday
‘A remarkable work of synthesis: scholarly, well researched, well paced, readable and comprehensive. The Indian Mutiny is one of history’s great stories, and in David it has found a chronicler whose knowledge and grasp of arcane military matters is matched by his narrative skills’ Sunday Times
‘Admirable, authoritative… A lapidary monument to one of the most dramatic and traumatic events in Anglo-Indian history’ Piers Brendon, The Oldie
‘David retells a good tale with sense, verve and fine judgement’ David Gilmour, Financial Times
‘A gripping work of narrative history’ William Dalrymple, Scotsman, Books of the Year
‘As comprehensive and scholarly an account as can be fitted into a single volume of 400 pages. Objective, lucid and readable’ Tablet
‘David is excellent on people and places and he succeeds admirably in conveying the atmosphere of a bitter and bloody struggle amid the heat, dust and flies of an Indian Summer’ M. E. Yapp, Literary Review
‘A rarity: a sound history book without a dull page in it’ M. R. D. Foot, Spectator Books of the Year
‘How to account for “The Devil’s Wind” that blew so ferociously, and bloodily, across the baked plains of British north India? Here is the first book that provides the answers’ Hugh Purcell, BBC History Magazine
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Saul David was born in 1966 and educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. He is the author of five previous books, including Mutiny at Salerno: An Injustice Exposed (made into a BBC Timewatch documentary), The Homicidal Earl: The Life of Lord Cardigan and Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency. He recently completed a Ph.D on the origins of the Indian Mutiny.
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First published by Viking 2002
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ISBN: 978–0–141–04097–4