Dimensions
127 x 198 x 25mm
This is the astonishing story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to the most notorious border in the world, India's North-West Frontier. Known collectively as "Henry Lawrence's young men", each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the 1840s before going on to make his name as a "political" on the frontier: Herbert Edwardes, Harry Lumsden, John Nicholson and James Abbot among others.
Drawing extensively on their diaries, journals and letters, as well as his own recent travels in their footsteps, Charles Allen, acknowledged master storyteller of imperial history, weaves the individual stories of these soldiers sahibs into an extraordinary tale that ends climatically on Delhi Ridge in 1857, when they came together to "save" British India.
