tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-524687988228302815.post1650020630792777918..comments2024-01-27T09:13:41.793+01:00Comments on Waziristan on a Fancy: Books for a Wargame II (updated!)Juan Mancheñohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07761893327024556857noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-524687988228302815.post-77507968886354343392013-07-25T13:04:01.482+02:002013-07-25T13:04:01.482+02:00Fantastic, Moonshadow. Thank you very much for th...Fantastic, Moonshadow. Thank you very much for the recommendation.Sidney Roundwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14795563060856586670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-524687988228302815.post-53042394288005556862013-07-04T20:17:05.067+02:002013-07-04T20:17:05.067+02:00Another one put in my list!Another one put in my list!Juan Mancheñohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07761893327024556857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-524687988228302815.post-12626026255190219262013-07-04T20:07:10.202+02:002013-07-04T20:07:10.202+02:00thanks for the fine comments, am always happy to s...thanks for the fine comments, am always happy to share any information I have, I just wish i had more and more was available. Unlike the campaigns of Victoria's reign there seems to be a shortage of personal accounts of the war. I don't know if this was because the soldiers who fought this war had just come through the first world war and were so used to fighting, hardship and violent death that they did not think it was special enough to write about, or if the general public and the British publishers were so inundated with reminisces of WW I that they had no interest in true stories of this latest conflict. For a good first hand view of soldiering on the frontier in the fist half of the 20th Century, John Masters' first volume of his autobiography -Bugles and a Tiger(ISBN 0-304-36156-9) can not be beat.Masters served as a officer of 4th Gurkha Rifles in the 30s and the whole book is filled with his love and pride in his profession and the Gurkhas he felt privileged to lead. The second volume of his autobiography(The road Past Mandalay(ISBN 0-304-36157-7))goes away from the frontier and covers his war service including his service with the Chindits - again an essential read for anyone interested in the Indian army.moonshadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11372089125688050755noreply@blogger.com