The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War, George Morton-Jack

The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War, George Morton-JackNew Hardback A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1. 5 million men who in 1914 18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean. After years of neglect, The Indian Empire at War raises the curtain on the Indian soldiers' personal experiences fighting for the Allies against the Central Powers, and returning home to play their part in the Indian Independence

The bestselling collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me

exploring ideas that until then had seemed too abstract to mean much to him

There were numerous attempts at steering balloons

travelling the length of Britain on foot

the French and the Russians

and those final days and hours of the First World War

In fact he had been recruited by the CIA for a clandestine air force involved in paramilitary operations in the former Belgian Congo

Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge - how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life

raised by his grandfather

Graded from easy to challenging

but also paints the picture of a heterogeneous group of young men enjoying life-shaping experiences together: learning to be sailors

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