"A fascinating record of leadership and service about a family that endured war in many guises and extensive hardship with humility and the utmost fortitude." General Sir Peter Wall The book describes four brothers' experiences on the North West Frontier of India in the 1930s, throughout the Second World War, during the partition of India in 1947 and the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s as well as a rare insight into their mother's precarious isolation during the war in Jersey under German occupation.