The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Band 10Viking Press, 1930 - 299 Seiten Autobiography of a British cavalry officer in pre-war India and on the Western front, who later became a member of the Royal flying corps in Mesopotamia. The closing chapters concern his subsequent travels in India and give his interpretation of the Hindu philosophy through the medium of his own personal experience. |
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... remained enigmatic bundles , small and inert . Those doll - like babies with flies round their eyes - nine- teen thousand of them were born every day in India . A staggering thought , all this begetting and birth . . . . And that girl ...
... remained enigmatic bundles , small and inert . Those doll - like babies with flies round their eyes - nine- teen thousand of them were born every day in India . A staggering thought , all this begetting and birth . . . . And that girl ...
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... remained the same , namely that the apprentice brought the tools of his trade . In my day the cost of a sillidar cavalryman's complete equipment was about £ 55 . If the recruit could not bring the whole amount , he brought at least £ 10 ...
... remained the same , namely that the apprentice brought the tools of his trade . In my day the cost of a sillidar cavalryman's complete equipment was about £ 55 . If the recruit could not bring the whole amount , he brought at least £ 10 ...
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... his directors . All this made for friendliness , and broad views . He had not time to make our men into machines . They remained yeo- men who had enlisted for izzat - the untranslatable prestige 19 Durbar and a Dog Fight.
... his directors . All this made for friendliness , and broad views . He had not time to make our men into machines . They remained yeo- men who had enlisted for izzat - the untranslatable prestige 19 Durbar and a Dog Fight.
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New Years Eve 1905 | 3 |
Durbar and a Dog Fight | 14 |
Masheen of the Mirrored Thumbs | 31 |
Urheberrecht | |
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