The World's War: Martial Races

David Olusoga tells the story of First World War from the perspective of those of who made it a truly global conflict - the millions of African and Asian troops and ancillaries who served alongside Europeans. He begins by examining how the British and the French drew immediately on the military resources of their respective empires at the outbreak of the conflict, with Sikhs, Gurkhas, Garhwalis and Pathans from the Raj and Spahis, Zouaves and Senegalese from north and west Africa being among the first to experience the horrors of trench warfare.