Strange Things
John Bayley: The letters of Indian soldiers, 2 September 1999
Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters 1914-18
edited by David Omissi.
Macmillan, 416 pp., £17.50, April 1999,0 333 75144 2 Show More
edited by David Omissi.
Macmillan, 416 pp., £17.50, April 1999,
“... Indian soldiers won the Victoria Cross. Many letters make the point that their loyalty was to the King personally, and express great contempt for the German Emperor, although it may well be that these are sentiments picked up from a prevailing climate of British opinion. The 127th Baluchis, whose trenches were only a few yards away from the German lines, took ... ”