Bugles And A Tiger

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474626071

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The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters Pdf

The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters Pdf

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : India
ISBN : 9780143064336

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Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters Pdf

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474626095

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Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters Pdf

The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. BUGLES AND A TIGER is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War. Still very much the army depicted by Kipling, it stands on the threshold of a war that will transform the world. This book is the first of three volumes of autobiography that touched a chord in the post-war world.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1221700300

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Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters Pdf

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Communism
ISBN : OSU:32435001274265

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Bhowani Junction by John Masters Pdf

Author : Sharkey Ward
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474625517

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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands by Sharkey Ward Pdf

The controversial first-hand account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might well have lost the Falklands War. His dramatic first-hand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary, outspoken account of inter-Service rivalries, bureaucratic interference, and dangerous ignorance of the realities of air combat among many senior commanders. As Sharkey Ward reveals, the 801 pilots were fighting not just the enemy, exhaustion, and the hostile weather, but also the prejudice and ignorance of their own side.

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007325764

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Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser Pdf

‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John Keegan

Author : Kailash Limbu,Alexander Norman
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408705377

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Gurkha by Kailash Limbu,Alexander Norman Pdf

In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in the whole of the Afghan campaign. Kailash Limbu recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those thirty-one days - in which they killed an estimated one hundred Taliban fighters - and intersperses them with the story of his own life as a villager from the Himalayas. He grew up in a place without roads or electricity and didn't see a car until he was fifteen. Kailash's descriptions of Gurkha training and rituals - including how to use the lethal Kukri knife - are eye-opening and fascinating. They combine with the story of his time in Helmand to create a unique account of one man's life as a Gurkha.

Author : Evan Wright
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101207611

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Generation Kill by Evan Wright Pdf

Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.

Author : Bryan Perrett
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780225203

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Against All Odds! by Bryan Perrett Pdf

The story of dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. From the Napoleonic Wars to Korea, Bryan Perrett has found a further 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. The events take place in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America; they are linked only by the bravery and devilment which led military men to risk their lives for a last ditch attempt to advance their cause. Attending to the important facts and statistics required by the military historian, the author avoids invention and undue surmise whilst also avoiding the dry lecturing style found in so many volumes describing military strategy. The result is an absorbing, exciting and above all accurate account of astonishing battlefield warfare: narrative history of the sort at which Bryan Perrett excels.

Author : Patrick Hennessey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101460054

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The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey Pdf

Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest of the club are scattered across the Middle East, they are no longer cheerfully overconfident young recruits, hungering for action and glory. Hennessey captures how boys grow into men amid the frenetic, sometimes exhilarating violence, frequent boredom, and almost overwhelming responsibilities that frame a soldier's experience and the way we fight today. Watch a Video

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Mogul Empire
ISBN : OCLC:713981478

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Coromandel!. by John Masters Pdf

Author : Ian Cardozo
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789354920288

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1971 by Ian Cardozo Pdf

An under-strength Gorkha battalion undertakes the Indian Army's first heliborne operation deep behind enemy lines, defeating a Pakistani force twenty times its strength. Fighters of the Indian Air force target the Government House in Dhaka in a daring air raid, forcing the Pakistani government in Dhaka to capitulate and surrender. Four battle casualties become close friends at the Artificial Limb Centre in Pune in the war's aftermath. In this collection of true stories, decorated war veteran Major General Ian Cardozo recounts what really happened during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, piecing together every story in vivid detail through interviews with survivors and their families. The book also seeks to commemorate the lives of those who were killed and wounded in this war, which took place fifty years ago. From the tragic tale of the INS Khukri and its courageous captain, who went down with his ship, to how a battalion of the Gorkhas launched what we accept as the last khukri attack in modern military history, these stories reveal what went on in the minds of those who led their men into battle-on land, at sea and in the air.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:873055401

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Bhowani Junction by John Masters Pdf