Massacre at Cawnpore, Vol. 3 »

V. A. Stuart wrote several series of military fiction and numerous other novels under various pseudonyms. Her settings span history and the globe, from the Napoleonic wars of Europe to India under the British Raj. Born in 1914, she was in Burma with the British Fourteenth Army, became a lieutenant, and was decorated with the Burma Star and the Pacific Star.

1857...A ragged band of exhausted soldiers defending some 400 frightened women and hungry children in a crumbling outpost, the British garrison at Cawnpore waits behind frail mud walls, under scorching sun, for the uncertain arrival of relief troops.