Old Soldier Sahib (Library of Wales) - Softcover

Richards, Frank

 
9781910901205: Old Soldier Sahib (Library of Wales)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1910901202 ISBN 13: 9781910901205
Verlag: Parthian Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

From the author of the celebrated Great War memoir Old Soldiers Never Die, Old Soldier Sahib is Frank Richards&; account of his experiences as a Royal Welch Fusilier in India and Burma at the dawn of the 20th century. Richards recounts with brutal honesty the everyday life of a common soldier in the Indian Empire, where prostitutes beckon, alcohol flows freely, and deadly diseases threaten to strike down even the hardiest of men.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Frank Richards was born in 1883 in Monmouthshire. He was brought up in the industrial Blaina area, and went on to work as a coal miner throughout the 1890s before joining the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1901. A veteran soldier who served in British India and many areas of the Western Front, he wrote his seminal account of the Great War from the standpoint of the common soldier, Old Soldiers Never Die, in 1933. This was followed by Old Soldier Sahib, a memoir of his time serving in British India, in 1936. He died in 1961.

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Verlag
Parthian Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1910901202
ISBN 13 
9781910901205
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
250
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