Books with title The Lives of Bengal Lancer

1930. Francis Yeats-Brown was a journalist who wrote the best-selling book, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer and edited the journal, Everyman. He became involved in right-wing politics during the 1930s. This included membership in the January Club. He also published articles that praised General Franco in Spain and claimed Hitler had cured unemployment in Nazi Germany. Bengal Lancer describes the different stages that a British military man went through during his time stationed in India during the early 1900's. From the ever correct military society and it's eccentrics and eccentricities to the Yogis and the religious practices and beliefs of the Indian people.

In The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, F. Yeats-Brown tells how, as a young and callow subaltern, eighteen years old, he set sail for India to join the colonial English Army. He lived through incredible accidents and dangers to tell this story of his lives- his life as a hard-riding soldier, his mystic life in the cult of Yoga, his life as a sportsman with his horses and dogs and hunting and polo, and his prison life in an underground cellar in Constantinople.