The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
by Francis Yeats-Brown
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Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the memoir of a carefree young cavalry officer in the halcyon days of the British Empire. Francis Yeats-Brown proves himself exceptionally good company, both funny and self-deprecating. He is devoted to his ponies and his dogs, passionate about polo and pig-sticking, and endures some extraordinary adventures in the First World War. However it is not his show more final destination that is memorable, but his idiosyncratic journey to establish some kind of truth. show lessTags
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Some what a memoir, but a very romanticised one. It made a movie for Gary Cooper and established a vision of Injah that Hollywood loved...Bill Slim in "Unofficial History" has a great critique of the vision 'cause he was there, and John Masters, also an old Indian Army man doesn't like this book either.
I found the earlier parts on life in an Anglo-Indian regiment very interesting. I cared less for the mystical part at the end.
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- Original publication date
- 1930
- Important places
- India; Mesopotamia; Middle East
- Important events
- World War I (1914 | 1918); Mesopotamian Campaign (1914-11-06 | 1918-11-14)
- Related movies
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935 | IMDb)
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- 135
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
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- (3.29)
- Languages
- Danish, English, French, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 20
