“I wanted to reflect and acknowledge that it wasn’t just a war fought by white men,” director Sam Mendes has said. - NBCAsianAmerica
Scottish-Pakistani writer Amna Saleem said the controversy was indicative of just how whitewashed the narratives surrounding both World Wars are in the U.K. Saleem herself learned just a few years ago that her great-grandfather died fighting for the British during World War II.
Saleem was stunned because she had never heard much about the South Asian soldiers who served. The story of the World Wars “is very much romanticized” in Britain, she said. “I think it should definitely be part of the curriculum,” she said.
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