Download Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War AudioBook Free
A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a warfare narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. The images of three teenagers acquired stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could keep in mind, beheld but never totally noticed. That they had all fought in the next World War, a fact that shocked him. Indians acquired never figured in his notion of the warfare, nor the warfare in his notion of India. One of them, Bobby, even seemed a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not discovered until he was the same get older as these were in their photo casings. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy southern Indian coastline, so wanting to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and self-confident, was a pilot with India's fledgling air drive; soft Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby's quest would bring him so far as the deserts of Iraq and the renewable hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern background. Yet India's outstanding role has been concealed, from itself and from the earth. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the storyline of a single family - a tale of love, rebellion, commitment, and doubt - and with it, the greater revelation that is India's Second World Conflict. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India's warfare, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the Uk Empire, even while its countrymen fought to be free from it. It bears us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma - unfolding the saga of a young family surprised by their quickly changing world and swept up in its violence.
