Название: The Bravest of the Brave: The Extraordinary Story of Indian VCs of World War I
Автор: Maj Gen Ian Cardozo
Издательство: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9385936247
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 128
Размер: 5,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
Indian soldiers had rallied bravely before to many a skirmish outside their frontiers, but never with as much conviction and in stellar numbers than in the greatest of them all-the First World War. Some of the compulsion to fight, fiercely and loyally, and most-times with tragic consequences to themselves, was to earn the respect of-and consequent independence from-the Raj.