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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Farthest Field An Indian Story of the Second World War Author:Raghu Karnad The debut of a brilliant young writer, Farthest Field tells the lost history of India's Second World War narrated through the joys and tragedies of a single family, the author's own. Bobby, 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 In... more »dia's Second World War. Manek, his dashing friend is a pilot and Ganny, married to Nugs, is a doctor battling both his asthma and his medical duties high in the mountains of the North West frontier. Bobby's Parsi family is torn apart by two marriages outside the caste, only to be soldered afterwards by tragedy. 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. '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. It is a book about loss, the unreliable wisps of memory and of three young lives tragically cut short. In penetrating prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity the story of India's Second World War - a war the world reveres and commemorates but India would choose to forget.« less