Bloody Assaye

Name: Bloody Assaye
Rating: 4.5 (1170 reviews)

by Griff Hosker Book 3 in the East Indiaman Saga series.

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In India, the East India Company’s armies prepare for another major campaign as the Wellesley brothers seek to extend British influence through alliances and battlefield victory. Fresh troops arrive eager for action, but enthusiasm gives way quickly to the realities of heat, distance, unfamiliar enemies and a war in which European officers depend heavily on Indian soldiers and local intelligence.

The campaign moves toward Assaye, where Arthur Wellesley’s force faces a much larger Maratha army. The novel places ordinary soldiers inside the confusion of manoeuvre and close combat, showing how strategic decisions made by senior commanders become exhaustion, fear and survival for the men required to carry them out.