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REMINISCENCES OF AN I.N.A. SOLDIER
Author: U. SUNDER RAO
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 168466778X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book records a brief description of my early life in a lower middle-class family of rural Karnataka, followed by an account of my short-lived career in the British Indian Army during World War II and, lastly, the story of the Indian National Army in which I was privileged to serve as a minor functionary from its very inception until the tragic day when it passed off into history. The narrative also details my bitter experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Japanese hands, my daring escape from captivity, my subsequent trials, and tribulations as a fugitive in Singapore and Malaya and, later on, the humble role which I played in the battle for freedom on the Indo-Burmese frontier. And towards the end, I have recounted the hard times which I had to face in the wake of the collapse of our armed struggle against the British forces.
The Forgotten Army
Author: Peter Ward Fay
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780472083428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.
Indelible Reminiscences
Author: Gurbakhsh Singh
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1935501380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The decade of the Forties was turbulent for British Raj - World War II was raging and the Indian subcontinent was swept by a popular freedom movement. As the War ended, Indian subcontinent was divided in 1947. India as a fledgling nation rose to the aftermath of Partition violence, exodus and influx of population; and a War in posed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Soldier
Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Civitas Books
Published: 2009-04-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0786731370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.
Eaten by the Japanese
Author: John Baptist Crasta
Publisher: Invisible Man Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Baptist Crasta's only mistake was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time--Singapore, when the Japanese invaded--and to be a man of rectitude and courage. His memoir tells of his miraculous survival through 3.5 years as a POW of the Japanese. The memoir itself miraculously survives 51 years until it is published by his son, just before his death!
Far from Home
Author: Jeffery Williams
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1552381196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Far From Home recounts the life of a soldier who grew up in 1920s Calgary and became an officer in the Canadian army who travelled the world. Williams offers a vivid retelling of growing up in Calgary during the depression. Williams transition from "the most untrained officer in the army" to an army officer at home in the Pentagon, along with the culture shock of moving from a relatively simple upbringing to the sophisticated life of an international officer, is told with great humour and rare insight into the human side of the military life.
Soldiers of Empire
Author: Tarak Barkawi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-27
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1316763994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign. Going beyond conventional narratives, Barkawi studies soldiers in transnational context, from recruitment and training to combat and memory. Drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, the book critiques the 'Western way of war' from a postcolonial perspective. Barkawi reconceives soldiers as cosmopolitan, their battles irreducible to the national histories that monopolise them. This book will appeal to those interested in the Second World War, armed forces and the British Empire, and students and scholars of military sociology and history, South Asian studies and international relations.
The Peoples’ War?
Author: Alexander Wilson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2022-11-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0228015901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples’ War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that have been marginalized in military and political studies, the volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places. Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals – including women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial subjects – whose stories do not fit easily into conventional national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front, occupier and occupied, captor and prisoner, and friend and foe became increasingly blurred as the war wore on. Above all, the volume encourages reflection on whether this conflict really was a “Peoples’ War.” Challenging the homogenizing narratives of the war as a nationally unifying experience, The Peoples’ War? seeks to enrich our understanding of the Second World War as a global event.
The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars
Author: Gajendra Singh
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-16
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1780938209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
