Old Soldier Sahib is like every man's real, ideal army book -- and it is the story of the author's own experiences as a Royal Welch Fusilier in India and Burma at the dawn of the 20th centurybefore the Great War. He tells graphically of barracks life and the life of a recruit in England in the early 1900's, of Indian service, of the military men and routine and the round of events, amusing and dramatic and romantic in the British army.Recountswith rare and brutal honesty the everyday life of a common soldier in the Indian Empire.
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- CHAPTER I ENLISTMENT
- CHAPTER II RECRUIT LIFE IN 1900
- CHAPTER III DRAFTED OVERSEAS
- CHAPTER IV THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
- CHAPTER V LOOSE-WALLAHS
- CHAPTER VI ON THE LINE OF MARCH
- CHAPTER VII A HILL-STATION
- CHAPTER VIII NORTH CHINA’S VETERANS
- CHAPTER IX ARCHIE; AND THE ASSISTANT COOK
- CHAPTER X THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
- CHAPTER XI NATIVE SERVANTS AND PROSTITUTES
- CHAPTER XII SPORT AND FEVER
- CHAPTER XIII MURDERERS, HALF-CASTES, BUN-PUNCHERS
- CHAPTER XIV HEAT
- CHAPTER XV YANK
- CHAPTER XVI THE AMIR AND GERALD
- CHAPTER XVII THE LECTURER
- CHAPTER XVIII BURMAH
- CHAPTER XIX RISHIS AND FAKIRS
- CHAPTER XX HOME AGAIN
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