Written by West India Committee CEO Mrs Blondel Cluff CBE and David Wells, the Committee's Director of Research and Heritage, this book is one of the outcomes of The West Indian Soldier Heritage Project.

The West Indian Soldier summarises the historic events of the military history of the British Caribbean in a concise, engaging manner with a multitude of illustrations and maps to aid the reader in their understanding of the topic. Above all else, it seeks to highlight, in a balanced manner, the struggles, successes and failures of the British Army’s relationship with the Caribbean.

The book is 368 pages long, with the first section on the social context of the Caribbean written by Blondel Cluff, designed to help a modern audience understand the complex nature of historic Caribbean society viewed through the lenses of the time.. The second section, written by David Wells, contains vivid descriptions of the difficulties faced by the British Army in the Caribbean and accounts of the wars in which they fought. It also details the exploits of those West Indians who joined the British Army, the struggles they endured in order to serve and how they contributed to the success of the British Army in the Caribbean, Africa, the First and Second World Wars and beyond.

It comes complete with a bibliography and index and also includes a facsimile of an eyewitness account of the English invasion of Jamaica in 1655.