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New Delhi, HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
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xx, 300pRed spine
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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.
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Prologue
Part one. Home
Everybody's friend, Calicut, 1936/39 3
Hukm Hai, Madras, 1939/40
Savages of the Stone Age, Miranshah, November 1941
The centre of the world, Madras, February 1942
Madras must not burn, April/June 1942
Things sacred between us, Mhow, August 1942 67
Do or die, Thal, August/October 1942
The King's Own, Roorkee, August/December 1942
Part two. West
Second field, Baghdad, March/April 1943
The Jemadars' story, Eritrea and Libya, 1940/41
The lieutenant's story, El Alamein, 1942
Part three. East
Enter the hurricane, Imphal, north-east frontier, May 1943
No heroes, Madras, May/June 1943
Fascines and Gabions, Calcutta, October 1943
The jungle book, Arakan, December 1943/March 1944
Fight with your ghost, Kohima and Jotsoma, April 1944
The cremation ground, Kohima, April 1944
The elephant, Tiddim Road, June/October 1944
The road ahead, Madras, November 1945
Epilogue
Afterword
Appendices
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9789351772033 Hb.
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| I02607 | 940.541241/KAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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