Title: Bugles and a tiger
Subtitle: a volume of autobiography
First published: 1956
Description: John Masters whose military career in the Indian Army spanned two decades has written a  thrilling account of the last days of the British Raj. Amidst the tensions of the civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi the British army is hard put to maintain law and  order . Not all the protests are non-violent and as tensions rise the romantic involvement of an army official with a beautiful Anglo-Indian girl makes for a compelling tales set against the background of the Indian Railway - the largest rail system in the world. History is in the making as a new Nation is born.
Subjects: American Novelists, Armed Forces, Military History, India, British, India. Army, Homes and haunts, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army, Americans, Intellectual life, Soldiers, English Authors, Biography, History, Homes, Histoire, Britanniques, Résidences et lieux familiers, Histoire militaire, Great britain, army, Authors, english, Authors, biography
Places: India
People: John Masters (1914-1983)
Time periods: 20th century