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Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914--15
Gordon Corrigan
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Description for Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914--15
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
Four days after war was declared, an Indian corps of two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade was ordered to embark for the Western Front. Clad in in tropical uniforms, those men endured one of the bitterest winters on record and fought in every major battle of the next two years. In a country they had never seen, against an enemy of whom they knew little and in a cause that was not their own, they served for the honour of their country and their regiments. Sepoys in the Trenches draws upon a mass of unpublished ... Read more
Four days after war was declared, an Indian corps of two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade was ordered to embark for the Western Front. Clad in in tropical uniforms, those men endured one of the bitterest winters on record and fought in every major battle of the next two years. In a country they had never seen, against an enemy of whom they knew little and in a cause that was not their own, they served for the honour of their country and their regiments. Sepoys in the Trenches draws upon a mass of unpublished ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750961615
SKU
V9780750961615
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Ref
99-50
About Gordon Corrigan
Major Gordon Corrigan retired from the Brigade of Gurkhas in 1998 to become a military historian. He is the author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock and Loos 1915. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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