Subaltern’s Choice
By Philip McCutchan
The men of the 114th Queen’s Own Royal Strathspeys are posted in Peshawar, an outpost of the British Raj near the North-West Frontier. But word comes that trouble is brewing in the region, and the princeling Jahangir Khan may need the army’s assistance. There they meet more than they bargained for: angry natives and what may be even worse.