A Sikh risaldar tells, in his own voice, how his regiment was shipped from India to Flanders in 1914, fought in the mud through a European winter, was captured, was sent east by the Germans to be turned against the Raj, and walked home across Asia. Mundy spent his twenties in India and East Africa as an ivory poacher and confidence man; this 1918 novel is the only one of its date to give the Indian Army its own narrator. Fifty-five plates range from Skinner's Horse and a thirteenth-century Arab ship to the Return to Mons, mustering the imperial and maritime imagery of a war that carried the Indian Army across the world.
