MUNDY, Talbot

Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders [aka Hira Singh's Tale]

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); green cloth covered boards, titled in black on the cover and spine; 308pp.; illustrated by Joseph Clement Coll. Spine ends pushed; minor rubbing to corners; tiny bookseller's ticket inside rear cover, [The White House Books, San Francisco] Near Fine, lacking the dustjacket.

"One hundred Indian troops of the British Army have arrived at Kabul, Afghanistan, after a four months' march from Constantinople. The men were captured in Flanders by the Germans and were sent to Turkey in the hope that, being Mohammedans, they might join the Turks. But they remained loyal to Great Britain and finally escaped, heading for Afghanistan. They now intend to join their regimental depot in India, so it is reported." (from the preface).

Price: $75.00

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