Farthest field
Raghu Karnad
Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War - New York : W.W. Norton & Company 2015. - xx, 300 pages 25 cm
"A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army--and onto the front lines of India's Second World War. His army fights for the British empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, and Indian soldiers end up on both sides of the vast conflict. The narrative travels from Madras to Eritrea, Iraq, and Burma, unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and devastated by its violence. The Farthest Field reveals how the war transformed India, its army, and the British empire that had ruled the country for so long and would, barely two years after the end of the war, abandon it to the horrors of partition. In penetrating nonfiction prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity the epic of India's Second World War--a war the world reveres, but India would choose to forget"--Provided by publisher.
9789352641826
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) LTD 7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002
Great Britain. -- Army. -- British Indian Army -- Biography.
Mugaseth, Bobby, -- 1919-1944 -- Family.
World War, 1939-1945 -- India.
Soldiers -- India -- Biography.
940.5412 RAG
Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War - New York : W.W. Norton & Company 2015. - xx, 300 pages 25 cm
"A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army--and onto the front lines of India's Second World War. His army fights for the British empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, and Indian soldiers end up on both sides of the vast conflict. The narrative travels from Madras to Eritrea, Iraq, and Burma, unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and devastated by its violence. The Farthest Field reveals how the war transformed India, its army, and the British empire that had ruled the country for so long and would, barely two years after the end of the war, abandon it to the horrors of partition. In penetrating nonfiction prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity the epic of India's Second World War--a war the world reveres, but India would choose to forget"--Provided by publisher.
9789352641826
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) LTD 7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002
Great Britain. -- Army. -- British Indian Army -- Biography.
Mugaseth, Bobby, -- 1919-1944 -- Family.
World War, 1939-1945 -- India.
Soldiers -- India -- Biography.
940.5412 RAG
