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Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Singh apart. He had neither rifle nor saber in his hand, and he walked to their trench alone because we avoided him. He was more muddy than we, and as ragged and tired. He had stood in the same foul water, and smelt the same stench. He was hungry as we. He had been willing to surrender, and we had not. Yet he walked like an officer, and looked like one, and we looked like animals. And we knew it, and he knew it. And the Germans recognized the facts.

He acted like a crowned king when he reached the trench. A German officer spoke with him earnestly, but he shook his head and then they led him away. When he was gone the same officer came and spoke to us in English, and I understanding him at once, he bade me tell the others that the British must have witnessed our surrender. "See," said he, "what a bombardment they have begun again. That is in the hope of slaying you. That is out of revenge because you dared surrender instead of dying like rats in a ditch to fee. . . Read More

Community Reviews

4.00
- Becca - Jan 19, 2021

This is a difficult book to rate. It’s a fictional book with dated dialogue and the action doesn’t really kick in until almost halfway through, but it focuses on a Sikh troop captured by the Germans in WWI. This is a hugely underrepresented group in the history of WWI. One in 6 troops in the forces

4.00
- Simpreet - Dec 19, 2018

A thriller about the adventures of a Sikh regiment from the time of World War 1. This book was penned by the author about a 100 years ago. Those two sentences are just enough to pique the interest of anyone interested in history. You don't really hear about the Indian contributions to both the World

4.00
- Carolyn - Jul 14, 2015

A wonderful story of courage and adversity with a good element of espionage as well. The characters are well developed and the settings beautifuuly described. A little jewel of a book.

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