Books by Hugh Purcell

The stories of two brothers in World War II. Christopher Burney was a secret agent tortured by the Gestapo and interned at Buchenwald concentration camp, and Roger a conscientious objector who later worked with the Free French navy, and to whom Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is dedicated.

The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, commander his own camel corps, he fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army.