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Contents

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Foreword

Reveille

1. The Bengal Lancers

2. Early Days and Sandhurst

3. Trooping to India

4. Frontier Mail

5. Peshawar to Landi Kotal

6. Frontier Policy in Mobilization

7. Red Shirts and Afridis

8. Charge!

9. Beer, Puttees and Patronymics

10. Furlough, Fun and Polo

11. Kashmir

12. The Hog-Hunter’s Song

13. Journey’s End

14. Chasing Chickens

15. ‘Quit India!’

16. Partition

17. The Pakistan Military Academy

18. Setting Up Shop

19. Complications at Kakul

20. Two Dozen Red Roses

21. Pakistani Postscript

Last Post

Index