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First published in Great Britain by Harvill 1993
Copyright © George MacDonald Fraser 1993
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Source ISBN: 9780008334581
Ebook Edition © 2019 ISBN: 9780007325764
Version: 2019-04-08
FOR JACK, ANDREW, HARRY, AND TOM,
SOME DAY,
THE TALE OF A GRANDFATHER
You may talk o’ gin and beer
When you’re quartered safe out here,
An’ you’re sent to penny fights an’ Aldershot it,
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ’im that’s got it.
RUDYARD KIPLING, Gunga Din
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Map
Introduction
Author’s Note
Quartered Safe Out Here
Epilogue: Fifty Years On
Footnotes
Glossary
About the Author
Also by George MacDonald Fraser
About the Publisher
