Armies of the Raj from the Great Mutiny to Independence: 1858-1947 Byron Farwell, 1989, W W Norton & Co. This very readable text covers many aspects of the military in India in the last hundred years of the Raj. There are chapters which dicuss why VD was more common amongst British than their Hindu and Muslim servants. Officer's lives are looked at. The post mutiny propensity to recruit only from "Martial" races (despite the fact that Britian conquered India using Bengali shop keepers), and how this caused problems in the highly technical world wars. My favorite quote coming from a Sikh driver who had just turned his tank over (accidentally of course) "An Ox cart could have crossed that hill." Generally a good read. Embattled Courage the experience of combat in the American Civil War Gerald F. Linderman, 1987, The Free Press. This book covers the various aspects of combat as it changed through the war. It stresses the way morale was created and subsequently destroyed. The central theme is that men fought due to notions/fantasies about courage, which they clung to as the war got nastier. Eventually the book grinds down to into three campaigns: Sherman's burning of the south, Sheridan's burning of the Shenandoah Valley, and Grants trench war at Petersburg. These three leaders had made the transition from the ideals of courage to the view of men as an expendable resource. This is an excellent book and a must read for ACW gamers. Back to Experimental Games Group # 6 Table of Contents Back to Experimental Games Group List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by Chris Engle This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com