India'S War: The Making Of Modern South Asia 1939-1945
By Srinath Raghavan.
Description
Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform fighting in the Middle East North and East Africa Europe and something simply never imagined against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. By the war s end the Indian Army had become the largest volunteer force in the conflict consisting of 2.5 million men while many millions more had offered their industrial agricultural and military labour. In India s War historian Srinath Raghavan paints a compelling picture of battles abroad and of l...
ISBN(s)
0670086118, 9780670086115
