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* 'Harrowing but magnetic ... With his customary rigour, Rathbone marshals extensive research to create the framework of his epic drama. Against this background he weaves the threads of smaller stories, intimate and personal accounts of individual tragedies ... Larger even than the conflict itself is India, elegantly and luminously brought to life in the consistently scintillating prose of this novel of real accomplishment (THE TIMES )
** 'Rathbone sets himself an ambitious challenge in THE MUTINY but he succeeds brilliantly in re-creating the chaos, the savagery and the clash of cultures in India in 1857. The stories of his own characters ... are all woven seamlessly into the wider narra (SUNDAY TIMES )
** 'Although the story of the mutiny has been told many times, it is fascinating to revisit it in such intelligent company ... ambitious, sweeping ... The British, with their quaint slang, and casual, unthinking racism, are very convincingly drawn. Rathbone also elicits great sympathy for the Indian mutineers, with their complex, often contradictory, motives (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
** 'Enjoyable and exciting to read ... Rathbone reveals himself to be a novelist of skill, compassion and imagination (TLS )
** 'Rathbone sets himself an ambitious challenge in THE MUTINY but he succeeds brilliantly in re-creating the chaos, the savagery and the clash of cultures in India in 1857. The stories of his own characters ... are all woven seamlessly into the wider narra (SUNDAY TIMES )
** 'Although the story of the mutiny has been told many times, it is fascinating to revisit it in such intelligent company ... ambitious, sweeping ... The British, with their quaint slang, and casual, unthinking racism, are very convincingly drawn. Rathbone also elicits great sympathy for the Indian mutineers, with their complex, often contradictory, motives (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
** 'Enjoyable and exciting to read ... Rathbone reveals himself to be a novelist of skill, compassion and imagination (TLS )
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'The Mutiny is fiction that movingly reanimates the history upon
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This novel is about the Indian Mutiny, but like all the novels about that sad event the author has a problem.
How to get from Merut to Cawnpore and on to the final act to Jansi without getting involved in the important but brutal and boring fighting around Delhi where the mutiny was settled.
At every step the author seems to be conscious of at George McDonald Fraser's novel 'Flashman in the Great Game', and insists on dropping hints about it.
The personalities aren't terribly well defined and the English ladies seem to almost blend into one another. The ending seems almost rushed as if he isn't concentrating and just wants it to be over.
All in all it's readable but it isn't 'The Last English King'...
How to get from Merut to Cawnpore and on to the final act to Jansi without getting involved in the important but brutal and boring fighting around Delhi where the mutiny was settled.
At every step the author seems to be conscious of at George McDonald Fraser's novel 'Flashman in the Great Game', and insists on dropping hints about it.
The personalities aren't terribly well defined and the English ladies seem to almost blend into one another. The ending seems almost rushed as if he isn't concentrating and just wants it to be over.
All in all it's readable but it isn't 'The Last English King'...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The book appears to have been so very well researched and put together that the reader will wonder if they or the author was actually present during this course of historical events in India.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I am a great fan of Julian Rathbone's novels, not least because I know I will come away from them having learned a great deal about the period of history in which the novel is based. This one is different, at times I felt almost bogged down in the historical facts, the troop movements etc, it was as though the characters were secondary to the tale at times, instead of the characters themselves drawing the story on. Another aspect which was missing from this story, which I enjoyed very much in the other books, was the element of gentle leg-pulling on the part of the author. On the whole, a well written account of one of history's darkest hours.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent as always.
Boy, can this man write? He is a consummate author, and in my opinion his characters are well-drawn and come to life. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Roy Brookes
Huge in scope, enjoyable in detail
Two of the best novels on the Mutiny are JG Farrell's Siege of Krishnapur and George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman in the Great Game. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Doug Jackson
Magnficent read
As a 10-year old I was fascinated by "Marvellous Escapes from Peril"...especially the siege of Lucknow. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Wallace Harrison
a journey through time and space
Once I got to grips with this novel ( and it does require effort at first ) I was completely captivated. Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by vera
sobering and a really good read
This is a powerful, moving and (of course) meticulously researched account of a horrifying time which will forever make me think differently about the way our ancestors behaved. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2010 by Jane
Horrific
A most excellent, informative and gripping historical novel of the Indian Mutiny, or if you are as PC as the BBC, The First War of Indian Independence. Read more
Published on 11 July 2009 by G. J. Weeks
A strange but rewarding book
I must admit I was at first a bit surprised by this book. Having read quite a few other books by Rathbone ('The Last English King', 'Joseph', 'Kings of Albion', and 'A Very English... Read more
Published on 1 July 2009 by Didier
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