Far Bugles

Far Bugles
Author: Colin Harding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1933
Genre: British
ISBN:

Sooubenirs d'in officier anglais aux de l'Union Sud -Africain...

Bugles and a Tiger

Bugles and a Tiger
Author: John Masters
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474626092

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.

Bugle-echoes

Bugle-echoes
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1886
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire

A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire
Author: Karen Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317188497

Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social and symbolical meanings. By placing these meanings at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in this volume extend the study of the gun beyond the confines of military history and the examination of its impact on specific colonial encounters. By bringing cultural perspectives to bear on this most pervasive of technological artefacts, the contributors explore the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and broad processes of social change. In so doing, they contribute to a fuller understanding of some of the most significant consequences of British and American imperial expansions. Not the least original feature of the book is its global frame of reference. Bringing together historians of different periods and regions, A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire overcomes traditional compartmentalisations of historical knowledge and encourages the drawing of novel and illuminating comparisons across time and space.

The Elites of Barotseland 1878-1969

The Elites of Barotseland 1878-1969
Author: Gerald L. Caplan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520333527

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.