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020			_a9781139226387 (ebook)
020			_z9781107027466 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aD547.I5 _bM67 2014
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100	1		_aMorton-Jack, George, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Indian Army on the Western Front : _bIndia's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War / _cGeorge Morton-Jack.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (348 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
490	0		_aCambridge Military Histories
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe Indian army fought on the western front with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1914 to 1918. The traditional interpretations of its performance have been dominated by ideas that it was a failure. This book offers a radical reconsideration by revealing new answers to the debate's central questions, such as whether the Indian army 'saved' the BEF from defeat in 1914, or whether Indian troops were particularly prone to self-inflicting wounds and fleeing the trenches. It looks at the Indian army from top to bottom, from generals at headquarters to snipers in no man's land. It takes a global approach, exploring the links between the Indian army's 1914–18 campaigning in France and Belgium and its pre-1914 small wars in Asia and Africa, and comparing the performance of the Indian regiments on the western front to those in China, East Africa, Mesopotamia and elsewhere.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107027466
830		0	_aCambridge Military Histories.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226387
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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