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The Great Indian Mutiny: Colin Campbell and the Campaign at Lucknow

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I disagree for these reasons:

Mr. Watson does state he would like to take another aprroach to the mutiny and to examine the question how a smaller British force defeated a larger native uprising. In some degree, he does just that. While he addresses this in chapter 8, he also touches on the topic in other chapters of the book. He also brings to light other details of the mutiny that other books don't give that much attention to or just mention briefly. This book is more geared to those familiar with the Indian Mutiny even though a reader new in the area of this part of history shouldn't have any troubles reading and understanding what Mr Watson is saying.

I would have to strongly agree that the book is overpriced. I can understand paying $85 for "Campaigns of Napoleon" by David Chandler, but to spend $85 for Mr. Watson's 120 page book seems a bit extreme. Even if it does examine some aspects of the mutiny, but in no great details, that other books seem to ignore.

This is an expensive and I found pretentious little book which offers little new. I say pretentious as it says that it will be different and that it will explain why so few British soldiers so far from support could defeat the much larger army that they did. Having set himself this task the author then fails to deliver and provides instead simply another potted biography. Not much original here. Four out of ten.