Download or read book Regimental Histories of the Indian Army written by Margaret Anne Myers and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Distant Battlefields written by Harry Fecitt and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World War II was a traumatising experience for those nations that were caught up in it. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Undivided India where over two and a half million Indians volunteered to serve in the armed forces and to fight against the evils of the fascist Axis Powers. Those Indians who served and fought had their own motives but a predominant one was pride and satisfaction in doing a soldier's job and earning a soldier's pay. Service in the Indian Army was respected, particularly in rural communities, and money sent home by a soldier could over time transform his family's social status. As it had done towards the end of World War I the Indian Army in World War II opened its arms wide and recruited from many varied castes and backgrounds, and few were found wanting. The demands made on India to provide servicemen and women were massive. Indian Army formations contributed significantly to the defeat of Italian forces in East and North Africa and then to the much more difficult confrontations with German troops. Dark days followed when Japan invaded Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya and Burma. Indian troops predominated in the defence of those regions and many were killed in action or ordered into captivity by their commanders. After realistic re-assessments of the threats faced in Asia had been made, and the new training and motivation required had been delivered, the Indian Army emerged again in 1944 and 1945 as the most proficient and economical Allied force in Asia. Meanwhile Indian troops, not forgetting the large number of Nepalese serving in the Indian Army, fought Vichy French forces in Syria, nationalists in Persia and Iraq, and above all else Germans in North Africa and Europe – and they won their battles. This book will show you how the Indian Army was tested during World War II, and how it prevailed using courage, professionalism, honour and dignity. "

Download or read book Non regular Military Forces in India written by India. Army. Auxiliary and Territorial Forces Committee and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the 43rd and 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Captain J. E. H. Neville and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's British soldiers serving in Iraq will know the country in which much of this unit history is set - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers known in the Great War as Mesopotamia. Unusually for such a work of record, the author lays down the background to the Great War in the Middle East in some detail - stressing such factors as the German-Turkish alliance; the building of the Berlin to Baghdad railway and Britain's interest in the Persian ( Iranian) oilfields. He also reports events with a topical resonance today - such as anti-British riots in Basra, and the declaration of a ‘JIhad’. The 43rd took part in the defeat of the Turks at Khan Baghdadi, and after the armistice in the spring of 1919 was re-deployed to Archangel in northern Russia in an effort to nip the Bolshevik revoloution in the bud. Under the command of General Sir Edmund ‘Tiny’ Ironside the 43rd battled gallantly against Bolshevik forces, although beset by flies, mosquitoes, bloodsucking ticks called clegs - and their unreliable White Russian allies. At last, partly through lack of progress and partly due to political pressure against an un popular foreign adventure - another echo of today- the unit was withdrawn in the autumn of 1919. An intriguing and unusual account of two little-known camapigns with eerily prophetic echoes of events in Iraq today.

Download or read book A History of the Mahrattas written by James Grant Duff and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soldiers of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

Download or read book A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes written by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 35,000 years ancient Afghanistan was called Aryana (the Light of God) has existed. Then in 747 AD what is today called Afghanistan became Khorasan (which means Sunrise in Dari) which was a much larger geographical area. In the middle of the nineteenth century the name Afghanistan, which means home of the united tribes, was applied originally by the Saxons (present day British) and the Russians. During the Great Games in the middle of nineteenth century, the Durand Line was created in 1893 and was in place until 1993. Saxons created the state of Afghanistan out of a geographical area roughly the size of Texas: in 1893 before which there were 10 million square kilometers, larger than the size of Canada, as means to act as a buffer zone between the Saxon-India & Tsarist-Russia and the Chinese.

Download or read book History of the Bombay Army written by Sir Patrick Robert Cadell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A History of the Mahrattas written by James Grant Duff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Scots historian James Grant Duff, this 1826 publication describes the history of the Marathi people in India.

Download or read book Regimental History 1914 1920 93rd Burma Infantry written by India. Army. 93rd Burma Infantry and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Historical Records written by Great Britain. Army. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Durban Light Infantry the History of Durban Light Infantry written by Arthur Clive Martin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anglo Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India written by Randolf G. S. Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology. He argues that these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent the military high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the last serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never a single decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a complex social and political struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. The author shows that victory in 1803 hinged as much on finance, diplomacy, politics and intelligence as it did on battlefield manoeuvre and war itself.

Download or read book The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945 1946 written by Richard Mcmillan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and critical scholarship with a high standard of writing: crisp and measured Relevant to a wide range of undergraduate courses in history This book revises history and presents new ideas: on the British official interpretation of post-war events in Southeast Asia; the condemnation of British policy by many Dutch scholars; and the ideas popularly held in Indonesia and by those sympathetic to the nationalist cause that Britain was playing a Dutch game