![]() ![]() ![]() " How many Indian soldiers are there in Congo as part of the Peacekeeping force?" In their exuberance, one of the more innocent ones asked me a simple question: Her friends, most of them from the business community had never ever interacted with an army officer before. I had just come back on leave from Congo for a week and for most of my wife's friends, I was an enigma, or in more desi terms, a fauji, an armywallah. I, along with my wife, was at her friend's wedding in Mumbai. ![]() Review of Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War I am extremely happy that I picked this book. ![]() It is amazing to see such a good book as the first book. Raghu writes about the great war, its complexities, and the causes and impacts. Raghu writes about the individual, Raghu writes about the family, Raghu writes about the conflicts, Raghu writes about the events happening around the lives of the actors and impacting them. Well researched, finely crafted, and brilliantly written. This is why it is such an important book to read. Our history curriculum never showed us that truth which this book uncovers in great details. Not a single book has covered the Second World War, the war which was never ours and still it reached and affected us, the war India was fighting in its own courtyards and in its neighbourhoods. Not a single book has covered the Second World War from the point of view of participations of Indians in this great detail. ![]()
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