![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An immediate hit with readers and critics, the book won the James Tait Black Award that year, and was turned into a successful 1935 film of the same name, starring Gary Cooper. The book is a memoir of Yeats-Brown's time in India from 1905 to 1914, with an emphasis on cantonment life at and around Bareilly. Bengal Lancer, his most famous book, was published in 1930. He retired from the army in 1924, and joined the staff of the Spectator magazine as assistant editor. This provided the material for his first book Caught by the Turks (1919).įollowing a temporary commission in the Royal Air Force he returned to the Indian Army in August 1919. In 1915, his plane was damaged on landing on a sabotage mission outside Baghdad, and he spent the following two years as a prisoner of war. His time there engendered in him a sympathy for the Muslim point of view, and in later years he would support the creation of an independent Pakistan.ĭuring the First World War, Yeats-Brown saw action in France and in Mesopotamia, where he was a member of the Royal Flying Corps. He was then transferred to the cavalry and sent to the perennially turbulent North West Frontier region. ![]() When he was 20, he went to India where he was attached to the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Bareilly in present-day Uttar Pradesh. Yeats-Brown was born in Genoa, the son of a British diplomat. ![]()
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