"Coolies" in the The Great War - Jim Corbett via Stephen Alter's Book
Channel: UVaLibrarian6
Date: 2019-02-14

Jim Corbett recalls his experience of taking 500 Indian men to work in France in 1917 as non-combatants. This is Stephan Alter's fictionalized account of Jim Corbett as in the third section of the book "In the Jungles of the NIght, a Novel about Jim Corbett," 2016. Link - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958205965 Well written, entertaining, read by Philip McEldowney. On the other hand, 48,000 Indian combat soldiers died in that Great War, in the  service under the British. Original file = SAltersCorbettCoolies1540a.mp4 Length = 15 minutes 40 seconds. Philip Mc phiipmc