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Podcast: Just the Best Literature
Episode: Winston Gets His Wish to Fight at Mamund
Description: Host Dennis Leap discusses North Indian tribes attack on the British in Chapter 11. As the Malakand Field Force moved deeper into the Mamund Valley, Sir Bindon Blood was negotiating with the North India tribes to avoid a bloody conflict. Yet young Winston and other soldiers like him wanted something exciting to happen. Winston wanted a rifle fight. Sir Bindon Blood and the Mamund tribe gave him his wish.