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Sto caricando le informazioni... War Against Japan Volume Ii: India?S Most Dangerous Hour: History Of The Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series: Official Campaign History (v. II)di S.Woodburn Kirby
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. this volume of the Official British War history covers the Burma army's retreat to the Indian Border, and the difficulties with their American and Chinese Allies at that most difficult time. The maps are so apparently good, that one is left hoping that other countries could update their to the same high standard. It would be a good idea to compare this volume to Slim's account in "Retreat into Victory, his war memoirs of this front. the Japanese get more credit than the USA Pacific based account gives them. There's an impression often given that the Japanese were especially adept at warfare in the tropics, but this account reveals their difficulties as well as those of their Anglo-British opponents. I read the 1962 edition. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This, the second of the five books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan, examines the high tide of Japan's success, when her all-conquering armies threatened India itself - the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. The book opens with the British scrambling to defend Burma, gateway to India, after Japan's onslaught on Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya and Singapore. Within weeks of Japan attacking Burma in December 1941, its capital, Rangoon, was lost and Britain was forced to look to India's defences. Despite a punishing monsoon climate and inhospitable jungle terrain, the British grimly held on to north-east India after the loss of Burma, and even made plans to hit back. The book looks at the controversial early campaigns of the Chindits, the guerrilla force conceived by the maverick and eccentric General Orde Wingate, a favourite of Churchill's, and features two more conventional Generals who fell foul of the Prime Minister - Archibald Wavell and Claude Auchinleck. Supported by 33 appendices, 15 main maps and 20 sketch maps; the book is illustrated by 35 photographs. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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