Four days after the declaration of war, an Indian corps of two infantry
divisions and a cavalry brigade was ordered to embark for the Western Front.
Clad in in tropical uniforms, those men endured one of the bitterest winters on
record and fought in every major battle of the next two years. In a country they
had never seen, against an enemy of whom they knew little, and in a cause that
was not their own, they fought for the honor of their country and their
regiments. This book draws upon a mass of unpublished sources and extensive
interviews by the author in India and Nepal—it