John Pemble graduated from Clare College Cambridge and then carried
out doctoral and postdoctoral research at the University of
Pennsylvania, the School of Oriental and African Studies in the
University of London, and the Ecole Nationale des Langues
Orientales Vivantes in Paris. He is the author of a wide range of
books, articles and reviews, and has taught at the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst, the University of Leicester, and the University
of Bristol, where he was Reader in History and is currently Senior
Research Fellow. His work has been translated into Italian,
Japanese, and Hebrew, and in 1987 he was joint-winner of the
Wolfson Literary Award for History.
He lives in Clifton, Bristol. "Britain's Gurkha War" is John's
first book with Frontline Books.
John Pemble's book is a well - written and well - researched comprehensive history of the conflict - and this is a more accurate description of what the book is about - military - history buffs will also relish the vivid descriptions of the many actions of the war. Particularly memorable are the scathing characterisations of the senior - British commanders - Particularly moving and memorable are his descriptions of the scene of slaughter found when the British entered the Nalpani fort - Ochterlony's Men
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