02115nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002300194082001900217100003400236245016200270264005200432300005900484336002600543337002600569338003600595490003300631500007300664520089300737776003501630830003401665856007101699999001901770CR9781139226387UkCbUP20180107143413.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120103s2014||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139226387 (ebook)  z9781107027466 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aD547.I5 bM67 201400a940.4/09542231 aMorton-Jack, George,eauthor.14aThe Indian Army on the Western Front :bIndia's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War / [electronic resource]cGeorge Morton-Jack. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2014.  a1 online resource (348 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCambridge Military Histories  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  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.08iPrint version: z9781107027466 0aCambridge Military Histories.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226387zCambridge Books Online  c236578d236578