The Amritsar Massacre Women in WWI by Kate Messner

by Kate Messner

the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople

from the battlefields of the American South to the battlefields of the Western Front

from conscription to its aftermath

" —Anne Chisolm

The Amritsar Massacre Women in WWI by Kate MessnerDescription by Vanessa Holburn Hardcover The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bagh park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 is considered a brutal example of colonial abuse. Immediately afterwards martial law was established with harsh penalties and punishments. Often considered as the darkest period of the Raj, the massacre helped galvanize the Indian Nationalist movement, making full