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Indians at War | Books

Three new books detail the experiences and impact of the Indian soldiers who fought in World War I

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the "guns of August" finally fell silent in many parts of the world, bringing to an end one of the most destructive wars in the human history. The First World War resulted in over 8.5

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