Books
Book Launch: The First Anglo-Sikh War
NEWS REPORT
THE FIRST ANGLO-SIKH WAR, by Amarpal Singh Sidhu. Amberley Publishing, U.K., 2010. Hardcover, pages: 320. ISBN-10: 1848689837, ISBN-13: 978-1848689831.
A new book, 'The First Anglo-Sikh War', by Amarpal Singh Sidhu, will be launched at the Royal Geographic Society, London, England, on Tuesday, September, 2010.
It is a complete and comprehensive narration of the campaign using many unpublished firsthand accounts and details that have surfaced since the last major book on the subject by Gough and Innes was published around a hundred years ago.
The book also includes for the first time a detailed analysis of the battlefield sites of Mudki, Ferozeshah, Bhudowal, Aliwal and
Sabraon and covers their history immediately after the battles and through the years, their current condition and what there is to see and explore today for battlefield tourists and enthusiasts.
The book has already received advance praise from both Military historians and battlefield archaeologists.
Amongst others, John Keay, author of the monumental work, "India: A History", writes:
"'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".
Dr. Tony Pollard, Battlefield archaeologist (BBC TV series presenter, "Two Men in a Trench"), says of the book:
"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".
Dilip Sarkar, MBE, Military historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of numerous books describes the book: "An extremely detailed study providing as definitive a narrative as is possible so many years later".
August 19, 2010
Conversation about this article
1: N.S. Dhesi (United Kingdom), September 21, 2010, 2:40 PM.
As a student of Sikh military history, I salute and congratulate Amarpal Singh Sidhu on a well-researched and professional piece of work on one of the most courageous and heartbreaking periods of Sikh military history. Well done, Sir.