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About 1,600 of the Indians who served on Gallipoli died, in action at Gurkha Bluff and Hill 60. They took part
in terrible, failed attacks, at Gully Ravine and Gully Spur and in the climactic attempt in August to seize the
summit of Sari Bair—one of the Gurkhas’ most cherished battle honours. Though commemorated on the
great memorial to the missing at Cape Helles (because most Indians’ bodies were cremated or, actually, lost)
they are practically invisible on Gallipoli today. The Indian story of Gallipoli has barely been told before. Not
only is this the first book about their part in the campaign to be published in the century since 1915, but it
also tells their story in new and unexpected ways. Though inescapably drawing on records created by the
force’s British officers, it strives to recapture the experience of the formerly anonymous sepoys, gunners and
drivers, introducing Indians of note—Mit Singh, Gambirsing Pun, Kulbahadur Gurung, and Jan Mohamed—
alongside the more familiar British figures.