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The Ravi Lancers

The Ravi Lancers
The Ravi Lancers
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London
'John Masters: The Ravi Lancers ' összes példány
Kiadó: Corgi Books
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 365 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 18 cm x 11 cm
ISBN: 0-552-09253-3
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THE RAVI LANCET^S
The Ravi Lancers are an anomaly: the private regiment of an Indian Prince, serving with the British. Their new commanding officer, Warren Bateman, is determined to mould the regiment into a first-class fighting force, although
like all the best officers of the old Indian Army he is sympathetic to his men. They, though, owe their allegiance
to Krishna Ram, the Rajah's heir and a demi-god. It was Krishna's anglophile enthusiasm which brought the Lancers to the Western Front But once there bitter conflict becomes
inevitable.
The tension between these two men moves to a more personal level when, during leave in England, Krishna has a passionate affair with Warren's sister, while Warren leams of his wife's unfaithfulness with another man. Private and military pressures combine to harden and embitter Bateman. He becomes a tyrant to his men suppressing their traditions and religious customs, without which they are more than
ever demoralised.
And in the Flanders... Tovább

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THE RAVI LANCET^S
The Ravi Lancers are an anomaly: the private regiment of an Indian Prince, serving with the British. Their new commanding officer, Warren Bateman, is determined to mould the regiment into a first-class fighting force, although
like all the best officers of the old Indian Army he is sympathetic to his men. They, though, owe their allegiance
to Krishna Ram, the Rajah's heir and a demi-god. It was Krishna's anglophile enthusiasm which brought the Lancers to the Western Front But once there bitter conflict becomes
inevitable.
The tension between these two men moves to a more personal level when, during leave in England, Krishna has a passionate affair with Warren's sister, while Warren leams of his wife's unfaithfulness with another man. Private and military pressures combine to harden and embitter Bateman. He becomes a tyrant to his men suppressing their traditions and religious customs, without which they are more than
ever demoralised.
And in the Flanders mud and horror of 1914, the clash between Indian and English temperament and tradition becomes a private war between two men and their women that has tragic consequences. Vissza

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