The Indian Contingent

Around three hundred soldiers of the British Indian Army were at Dunkirk in 1940, and almost no account of the evacuation mentions them. Ghee Bowman traced their service through archives, family records and surviving documentation, following the mule companies of Force K6 through France, the evacuation itself and the years in Britain that came after. The research is careful about what can and cannot be established from the record, and the book places the men's experience inside the larger question of who actually fought the Second World War. Names, units and locations are restored wherever the documents allow it. Key points at a glance: • Archival history of Force K6 at Dunkirk • Traces British Indian Army soldiers in France and Britain • Examines the colonial dimension of the Second World War • Documents a group largely missing from standard accounts For military history readers, students and researchers of the Second World War, available at Boipoka.