Sahib : the British soldier in India, 1750-1914 /
Holmes, Richard 1946-2011,
Sahib : the British soldier in India, 1750-1914 / Richard Holmes. - London : HarperCollins, c2005. - xxxiii, 572, [24] σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. 513-524) και ευρετήριο.
[B]egins with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experiences of the ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived"--Fly leaf.
0007137532 9780007137534
Στρατιώτες --Ιστορία --Ινδία--19ος αιώνας.
Ινδία --Ιστορία--Βρετανική κατοχή, 1765-1947.
Μεγάλη Βρετανία--Στρατιωτική ζωή--Ιστορία --19ος αιώνας.
954.03
Sahib : the British soldier in India, 1750-1914 / Richard Holmes. - London : HarperCollins, c2005. - xxxiii, 572, [24] σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. 513-524) και ευρετήριο.
[B]egins with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experiences of the ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived"--Fly leaf.
0007137532 9780007137534
Στρατιώτες --Ιστορία --Ινδία--19ος αιώνας.
Ινδία --Ιστορία--Βρετανική κατοχή, 1765-1947.
Μεγάλη Βρετανία--Στρατιωτική ζωή--Ιστορία --19ος αιώνας.
954.03
