For many years there was a gaping hole in the historiography of the British war effort in the Second World War. The Indian Army of 1939-45, the largest all-volunteer force in history, was shamefully neglected by historians. Your reviewer first became aware of this in the early 1990s, when researching the history of British military police, and discovered that the scholarship on the Indian Army of the period was painfully thin.
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