A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army—and onto the front lines of India’s Second World War. His army fights for t
A brilliantly conceived non-fiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his
About the Book Described as ‘a masterpiece’ by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives, heartbreaks and deaths of a single family. If you loved The English Patient or Ro
The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surpr
