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    Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914

    By Richard Holmes

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2011
    ISBN9780007370344
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    Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914
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    Richard Holmes

    Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as ‘surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

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    • 5/5
      This is a very interesting and readable book. It is Holmes' third in a series about british soldiers between 1750 and 1919. The other books being REDCOAT and TOMMY, in which Holmes looks at the British soldier in the age of musketry and during the first world war respectively. In SAHIB Holmes uses contemporary material as sources and gives an impressive insight in to what it was really like to be a British soldier in India between 1750 and 1914. Highly recommended!