Massacre at Cawnpore

by V. A. Stuart

Overview

1857, Cawnpore: With savage mutineers laying relentless siege to its very gates, the British garrison at Cawnpore, in the north of pre-partitioned India, holds on with little more than will. A ragged band of exhausted soldiers defending some 400 frightened women and hungry children in a crumbling outpost, they wait behind frail mud walls, under a scorching sun, for the uncertain arrival of relief troops.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590130193
Publisher:	Mcbooks Press
Publication date:	04/01/2002
Series:	Alexander Sheridan Adventures , #3
Edition description:	None ed.
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

V. A. Stuart wrote several series of military fiction and numerous other novels under various pseudonyms. Her settings span history and the globe, from the Napoleonic wars of Europe to India under the British Raj. Born in 1914, she was in Burma with the British Fourteenth Army, became a lieutenant, and was decorated with the Burma Star and the Pacific Star.

Editorial Reviews

"The author's command of the smallest detail of the period is impressive. A historical novel of scholarship."  —Yorkshire Post

From the Publisher

Vivid details of scarlet soldiering.

Tatler

Stuart's saga of Captain Sheridan during the Mutiny stands in the shadow of no previous work of fiction, and for historical accuracy, writing verve and skill, and pace of narrative, stands alone.

El Paso Times

The author's command of the smallest detail of the period is impressive. A historical novel of scholarship.

Yorkshire Post