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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling

history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorne. On today's podcast, you'll hear a conversation about Indian soldiers of the First World War with author George Morton Jack. George's book, The Indian Empire at War, looks at the experiences of almost 2 million Indian volunteers who fought in a conflict.

BBC World History's editor Matt Elton met George in London to find out more.

Whose stories do you tell in your new book?

So my new book tells the story of the one and a half million Indians who fought with the British in the First World War. So that's alongside

the British all around the world from 1914 to 1918, meaning anywhere from the trenches of Flanders

to the Indian Home Front, British Home Front, and also the war's wider fronts in Africa and Asia.

This is a big subject, a big story.

Why do you think it's something that has perhaps been neglected in the past?

I think its neglect is extraordinary, because, broadly speaking,

it has been a neglected subject for almost 100 years.

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