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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I came upon this book when I read another book called "If I Die Here, Who Will Remember Me?". That book, by Vedica Kant, is a brief history - with lots of photographs - of the Indian soldiers who lived and died in World War I. I had said then, that it is a book that is well worth reading because it chronicles the history of these little known soldiers. Mulk Raj Anand's book is also based on the events of World War I, and it follows the lives of a fictional battalion as they cross the "Black Waters" into France. It speaks of the incessant sound of warfare; the more liberal attitudes of the French to Indians, as compared to the British, who instilled a sense of inferiority in Indians; the petty attitude of the Indian NCOS and a bit more. It follows, largely, Lal Singh into battle, until his final capture by the Germans. His fate is left for us to imagine. It's a very good book. It's a very good book indeed. There is a sense of pathos, anger, and sadness in the book. Why did we have to send people to fight the war of another nation? nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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While the novel is excellent, the modern edition published by Shalimar Books to coincide with centenary of the Great War is very poor. There are glaring typographical errors on nearly every page, from sentences cut in half to spaces inserted within words, all of which is garnished with random punctuation and spelling mistakes. These mistakes are so consistent that it is hard not to come to the conclusion that no one proof read the book before it was sent to the printers. It makes reading the novel very difficult. ( )