ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR ([Frederick Sleigh], Field-Marshal Lord)
Forty-one Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in- Chief.
A runaway bestseller, Roberts’ memoirs ran to eight editions in the first month of publication.
Ladendorf 364: “Most of Volume I is concerned with the Mutiny”; Taylor 669: “… it is noteworthy that Roberts was a Sepoy General, that is he was from the old Indian Army of the East India Company, not one of the Queen’s officers. The result… is that he shows love and respect for India and things Indian”; Jain 974; Riddick 401.