"Bugles and a Tiger, a Volume of Autobiography" by John Masters, published by The Viking Press, New York, 1956, BOMS Edition identical to the first trade edition and issued one month after the first printing of the trade edition [printed from the same plates]; the only mark of BOMSC is an imprint on the flaps of the dust jacket and small impressed dot on the backboard.

Original dust jacket [fair- damages: see photos]; the jacket is protected in clear mylar cover, hard boards, ¼ green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations; 5.3/4" x 8.3/4"; 312 pages including Index, very good condition.

"In Bugle and a Tiger, John Masters has done a good job of describing life in British India and the socio-military view of imperial India from a low level personal perspective."

"John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. BUGLES AND A TIGER is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War. Still very much the army depicted by Kipling, it stands on the threshold of a war that will transform the world..."

"John Masters has a remarkable mastery of words and uses his skill to vividly detail the countries, customs, behavior and war fighting tactics of tribesmen and armies of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Waziristan. This is the story of a young officer coming of age in the Indian army (then a semi-autonomous branch of the British army) during the time of the Raj, up to the beginning of the greatest conflict in world history. How the Young man’s experiences prepared him for that challenge. The campaigning in the Tribal areas of the Afghan frontier will be familiar- startlingly so- to anyone who has recently deployed there Experiences hunting Tigers will be exotic and new.." [from a review]

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