GUARDIAN, SPECTATOR and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century' Sunil Khilnani 'Raghavan's panoramic book deserves the accolades that it is receiving as the most comprehensive account of the subcontinent's experiences in the second world war...masterful' Financial Times Between 1939 and 1945 India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians suddenly found themselves as soldiers, fighting in Europe and North Africa but ...
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GUARDIAN, SPECTATOR and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century' Sunil Khilnani 'Raghavan's panoramic book deserves the accolades that it is receiving as the most comprehensive account of the subcontinent's experiences in the second world war...masterful' Financial Times Between 1939 and 1945 India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians suddenly found themselves as soldiers, fighting in Europe and North Africa but also - something simply never imagined - against a Japanese army threatening to invade eastern India. Many more were pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization. Srinath Raghavan's compelling and original book gives both a surprising new account of the fighting and of life on the home front. For Indian nationalists the war has tended to be seen as a distraction from the quest for national independence - but Raghavan shows that in fact the war lay at the very heart of how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia. By seeing the Second World War through Indian eyes, Raghavan transforms our understanding of the conflict - with famous battles such as those in North Africa and Iraq reinterpreted, as well as fascinating and little known campaigns such as the destruction of Italian northeast Africa. Time and again, it was Indian troops that made Britain into a global power and, as the war came to an end, it was the Indian army that fought the final battles which marked the end both of the Japanese empire, and of the British.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 9780241957592.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped (£30.00 price intact). Published by Allen Lane, 2016. Octavo. Tan boards stamped in black. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, edgewear and crinkling to front. 553 pages. ISBN: 9781846145414. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
