The Indian Contingent by Ghee Bowman

‘An important and essential work’ SATHNAM SANGHERA‘An incredible and important story’ MISHAL HUSAIN‘Groundbreaking … a riveting and moving account’ YASMIN KHAN‘A fitting recognition of the contribution of Dunkirk’s forgotten soldiers’ ANAS SARWARThe incredible untold story of the Indian soldiers at Dunkirk. On 28 May 1940, in the early days of the Second World War, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a beach in northern France. They were the only Indians in the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. With Stuka sirens wailing, shells falling in the water and Tommies lining up to be evacuated, these soldiers of the British Indian Army, carrying their disabled imam, found their way to the East Mole and embarked for England in the dead of night.