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Jack Windrush

The Jack Windrush series follows a Victorian army officer from the Second Anglo-Burmese War through the Crimea, the Indian Rebellion, frontier campaigns, West Africa, Afghanistan, Egypt and the Sudan. Beginning as an ambitious young lieutenant in the disregarded 113th Foot, Windrush becomes an experienced commander increasingly sceptical of the political assumptions behind imperial warfare.

Across twelve novels, the series combines campaign history with regimental continuity, espionage and family relationships. Battles and marches are shown through officers, ordinary soldiers, local allies and opponents, while the recurring tension between duty and conscience allows the books to question military glory, racial hierarchy and the human cost of Britain’s nineteenth-century expansion.

Reading order

Books in this series (12 books)

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1. Windrush

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2016

4.3(2,261)

Burmese War, 1852. Unable to join the famous Royal Malverns, Jack Windrush is commissioned into the despised 113th Foot. Determined to rise in the ranks and make a name for himself, he is sent with the 113th to join the British expedition. But when they get…

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2. Crimea

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2016

4.4(834)

Malta, 1854. Jack and his disreputable 113th Foot are stationed in Crimea. A lieutenant in British Army's worst regiment, Jack hankers for recognition to regain his true station in life. At the Battle of the Alma, Jack is sent to General Campbell of the Highland Brigade…

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3. Blood Price

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2017

4.5(870)

Jack Windrush and the 113th Foot are commissioned to Sevastopol during the Crimean War. As the great storm of November 1854 rages, Jack's unit is rescuing survivors from a wrecked ship and finds out that one of the survivors is Helen Maxwell, his former sweetheart. Soon…

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4. Cry Havelock

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2017

4.5(759)

Captain Jack Windrush and the infamous 113th Foot are assigned to India, just before the Indian Mutiny breaks out. Returning from a five-day march with his company, Jack finds that the sepoys have rebelled and massacred their officers, and most of the other company of the…

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5. Jayanti’s Pawns

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2018

4.6(760)

Jack Windrush is still in India during the late stages of the Indian Mutiny. Tired of war, he has to obey orders when Colonel Hook orders him to hunt down a mysterious female warrior named Jayanti. Soon, Jack's company of the 113th Foot shares in the…

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6. Warriors of God

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2019

4.6(599)

Years after leaving the 113th Foot, Jack Windrush is sent to the Northwest Frontier of India to investigate reports of gun-running among the Pashtun tribes. When he discovers that the reports are not only true, but run deeper than initially believed, he is assigned to stop…

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7. Agent of the Queen

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2020

4.3(418)

Jack Windrush is ordered to infiltrate the Fenian Brotherhood after intelligence suggests that the movement is attempting to encourage mutiny within the British Army. His mission takes him from England to Ireland and then across the Atlantic to the United States and Canada, where Fenian organisation…

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8. The City of Dreadful Death

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2020

4.4(569)

Shipwrecked on the African coast, Major Jack Windrush and his wife Mary find themselves embroiled in a war, as the Ashantis attack the British colony of the Gold Coast. While Jack leads a company of the West India Regiment, Mary tries to help the refugees in…

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9. Beyond the Frontier

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2021

4.5(541)

In 1878, Jack Windrush and the 113th Foot are sent into Afghanistan as Britain responds to fears of growing Russian influence at the court of Amir Sher Ali. Jack must prepare an inexperienced battalion for campaigning in difficult terrain as British forces advance in separate columns…

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10. Farewell to Afghanistan

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2021

4.4(459)

Afghanistan, 1880. Major Jack Windrush of the 113th Foot is sent to persuade Batoor Khan to support the new Amir, but the mission is overtaken by Ayub Khan’s advance against British forces. Jack joins the army moving to meet the threat and is soon caught in…

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11. A Ditch in Egypt

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2022

4.3(421)

Egypt, 1882. Jack Windrush has to combine his role as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Malverns with an unwanted position as a spy for General Hook. Colonel Arabi has led an Egyptian rebellion against the Khedive, hereditary ruler of Egypt for the Ottoman Turks, and the British…

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12. Baptism of the Sword

Malcolm Archibald

First published 2022

4.3(429)

Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Windrush is sent as an observer on a British-led Egyptian expedition to rescue the garrison of two Egyptian posts in Sudan. When the local warriors intervene, the British send an army. Jack and his regiment, the Royal Malverns, are heavily involved. Things become more…