Distant Battlefields: The Indian Army in the Second World War by Harry Fecitt
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Overview: World War II was a traumatising experience for those nations that were caught up in it. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Undivided India where over two and a half million Indians volunteered to serve in the armed forces and to fight against the evils of the fascist Axis Powers.
Those Indians who served and fought had their own motives but a predominant one was pride and satisfaction in doing a soldier’s job and earning a soldier’s pay. Service in the Indian Army was respected, particularly in rural communities, and money sent home by a soldier could over time transform his family’s social status.
As it had done towards the end of World War I the Indian Army in World War II opened its arms wide and recruited from many varied castes and backgrounds, and few were found wanting. The demands made on India to provide servicemen and women were massive. Indian Army formations contributed significantly to the defeat of Italian forces in East and North Africa and then to the much more difficult confrontations with German troops.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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