
The ringing answer that comes to me is: I don’t know. How do we learn about all this? Which books do we turn to? Do we have enough such books to enlighten us? How people’s lives are affected, not only in the way they live their daily lives, but also ideologically, what their perspectives are, and where their loyalties lie.

But we don’t stop to understand the circumstances that built up to it or the effect of war in the ensuing periods.

When we think of war, we think of when it started and when it ended, what caused it to start and what caused it to end, and the casualties that each party suffered throughout the period.

Thank you, Bloomsbury India, for sending me a proof copy of this smashingly beautiful book!
