Second field : Baghdad, March 1943 The Jemadars' story : Eritrea and Libya, 1940-41 The lieutenant's story : El Alamein, July-November 1942 Kings of Persia : Baghdad, April 1943 - Part three: East. Everybody's friend : Calicut, 1936-39 Hukm Hai : Madras, 1939-40 Savages of the Stone Age : Miranshah, November 1941 The centre of the world : Madras, February 1942 Madras must not burn : April 1942 Things sacred between us : Mhow, August 1942 Do or die : Thal, August-October 1942 The King's own : Roorkee, August-December 1942 - Part two: West. In penetrating nonfiction prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity the epic of India's Second World War-a war the world reveres, but India would choose to forget"-Provided by publisher.įull Bibliographic Record Publication information: The Farthest Field reveals how the war transformed India, its army, and the British empire that had ruled the country for so long and would, barely two years after the end of the war, abandon it to the horrors of partition.
The narrative travels from Madras to Eritrea, Iraq, and Burma, unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and devastated by its violence. His army fights for the British empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, and Indian soldiers end up on both sides of the vast conflict. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army-and onto the front lines of India's Second World War. "A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.
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