Jack Windrush

In 1852, Jack Windrush hopes an army commission will give him a name worth remembering. Denied a place in the prestigious Royal Malverns, he must settle for the poorly regarded 113th Foot. The regiment joins the British expedition to Burma, where an assault on Rangoon exposes Jack to a kind of warfare far removed from his expectations. Ambition and duty begin to look different on the fringes of the empire. A meeting with a renegade British soldier deepens his doubts.