when i was still in single digit of age, i remember walking around with a tin helmet on my head - a leftover from my dad's ARP days. that was my family's contribution to the 2nd world war.
unlike the author of this book, raghu karnad, 'farthest field - an indian story of the second world war'. it narrates the story of 3 of his relatives' experience in the various mid east and indian fronts of the war.
the burma front and the fight at kohima to stop the japanese are considered, today, more fierce than the fiercest of western european skirmishes. but these are forgotten, as most of the fighting for the empire was done by indians with a good lot of freshly minted indian officers.
an awesomely etched book, with a mastery of the english language, bar none.
a sample start...'people have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone'.
so powerful. so true. so poignant. recommend a read to everyone who reads this brief post.
from amazon.com
unlike the author of this book, raghu karnad, 'farthest field - an indian story of the second world war'. it narrates the story of 3 of his relatives' experience in the various mid east and indian fronts of the war.
the burma front and the fight at kohima to stop the japanese are considered, today, more fierce than the fiercest of western european skirmishes. but these are forgotten, as most of the fighting for the empire was done by indians with a good lot of freshly minted indian officers.
an awesomely etched book, with a mastery of the english language, bar none.
a sample start...'people have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone'.
so powerful. so true. so poignant. recommend a read to everyone who reads this brief post.
from amazon.com