Forty-one years in India
A distinguished Anglo-Irish soldier and one of the most successful commanders of the Victorian eraá Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, describes his career from his arrival in India as a subaltern military officer to the chief of the Royal British army in India. The book provides valuable detailed information concerning the history of British colonization of India. The discussion of high politics and state affairs are full of personal feelings and sorrows of a colonial officer away from his fatherland. The book was published in 1897, after the author had returned to England (1893), where had an opportunity to write down these reminiscences.
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