Subhash Chandra Bose, The Springing Tiger: a Study of a Revolution

by Hugh Toye

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298 pages, Hardcover

Published September 9, 2021

About the author

Colonel Hugh Toye, OBE was an officer of the British Army. In 1940 he was a student at Queens' College, Cambridge when he joined the Territorial Army Medical Corps. He served briefly in France with a Field Ambulance Unit, then was evacuated back to the U.K. Subsequently commissioned in the Royal Artillery, Toye was posted to India in 1943. While in India, he was an intelligence officer whose job it was to track Subhas Chandra Bose, the leader of the Indian National Army. Toye also spent some time in Burma, reporting on the situation at the time of the death of the Burmese nationalist leader Aung San in 1947. Later in that year he returned to the U.K., where he attended staff college. He served in various posts in Hong Kong, London and Cyprus. In 1960, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, Toye was posted to Vientiane, Laos as military attaché. In 1962 Toye was posted to SHAPE in Paris. This was followed by two years as a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he earned a Ph.D. He was promoted Colonel in 1968, and after a posting to SEATO in Bangkok, served in New York as Defence Adviser to the British Mission at the U.N. Colonel Toye’s final posting before his retirement from the Army in 1972 was as Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington D.C.