Praise for “The First AngloSikh War”
'Amarpal Sidhu has done some excellent research in both British and Sikh documents and has thoroughly explored the sites of the battles, to produce an important new book on this war.' - Brigadier Bill Woodburn, Royal Society of Asian Affairs
''The First Anglo-Sikh War' unearths a wealth of rarely studied sources and marries them to exhaustive field research to produce a detailed study of an important but largely forgotten campaign.' -JOHN KEAY, Historian, Author of India: A History
'With this book in hand, the battlefields of the Punjab come alive once again.' - PROFESSOR PETER DOYLE BSc PhD Ggeol FGS Co-Secretary, All Party War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group
‘A valuable contribution to our understanding of an important but largely overlooked conflict. The sections on the battlefields today, which include vivid descriptions of the aftermath of combat by eyewitnesses, so often overlooked in works of military history, will help to make this a key work for a long time to come’ – DR TONY POLLARD, battlefield archaeologist and co-presenter of BBC TV’s ‘Two Men in a Trench’
‘A remarkably well researched work offering a refreshingly alternative perspective on the Anglo-Sikh wars and the surging imperial intrigues that presaged them’ – HARBINDER SINGH RANA, Director of the Anglo-Sikh Heritage Trail
'An extremely detailed study providing as definitive a narrative as is possible so many years later. I commend this work to military historians and enthusiasts everywhere' - DILIP SARKAR MBE Military Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
'This book is a cracking read. Buy it. Do it now. The First Anglo-Sikh War is a singular book in that it manages to elicit favorable comments from proper historians, battlefield archeologists and now, from History Poodles like me.' - ARMY RUMOUR SERVICE FORUM REVIEW
'This book is a 'must read' and for those who are contemplating a visit to the area, this book is an essential companion' - CHOWKIDAR Magazine (Journal of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia)
'The book is expertly written, its accounts of the battlefield actions very informative and riveting. One of the best publications I have seen on the Sikh Wars and I certainly recommend it. I’m certainly going to look out for Sidhu’s next publication, The Second Sikh War' - WARGAMES ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE May 2011
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The Book
“The FirstAngloSikh War” published by Amberley is available from all good bookshops and online on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or from Amberley’s own website (http://www.amberleybooks.com/). -
Battlefield descriptions after the battles
Many descriptions survive of the state of the battlefields sometimes just a few hours after the battles up to fifty years later recorded by both soldiers and civilians. These taken... -
Previously unpublished 19th Century images of the battlefields
Many visitors traversed the scenes of the battles of the war including Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India. The book features six of the earliest images taken during... -
New battlefield Images
Photographs provide a graphic account of the way the battlefield sites have evolved and changed in a way that the written word can never provide. New colour images of each... -
GPS Coordinates
The “First AngloSikh War” contains a battlefield guide section documenting hundreds of locations both on the battlefield and of related villages and locations. GPS coordinates of all locations is provided... -
New scale battlefield maps
The book features brand new maps of the battlefields. Previous books have always used existing contemporary sketches. These can be grossly out of scale and show only the major landmarks...
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