The eyes of Asia

著者

• Kipling, Rudyard

書誌事項

The eyes of Asia

Rudyard Kipling, with an introduction by Charles Allen

Kashi House, 2017

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Kipling's The Eyes of Asia takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in the First World War.Their touching stories are narrated through a series of imagined letters written in the blood-drenched battlefields of war-torn France and makeshift hospitals on England's coastline to their loved ones back home in the relative peace of their villages in India and the North-West Frontier. Kipling brings the experiences of these uneducated Sikh, Hindu and Muslim military men to life, weaving the horrors of a foreign war like no other with acts of kindness arising from cultural encounters with French farmers and British military personnel.Through unofficial access to translations of scores of intercepted Indian Army letters, Kipling gained an intimate understanding of the plight and humanity of men neglected in Western literature after the War. To Kipling, they were unsung heroes whose sacrifices had made a decisive impact on the British war effort.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB27498796
• ISBN:
  • 9781911271055
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 103 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 823.8
• 件名:
  • LCSH : World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, East Indian -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Historical fiction, English