Burma '44 : the battle that turned the war in the Far East / James Holland.

By:

Holland, James, 1970- [author.]

Material type: Text

still image
text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780593075852 (cased)
0593075854 (cased)
9780593075869 (tpb)
0593075862 (tpb)

Other title:

Burma forty-four
Burma 1944

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.542591 23 HOL

LOC classification:

D767.6 .H65 2016

Summary: ASIAN HISTORY. Back in February 1944, a rag-taggle collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War. The Defence of the Admin Box, fought amongst the paddy fields and jungle of Northern Arakan over a fifteen-day period, turned the battle for Burma. Not only was it the first decisive victory for British troops against the Japanese, more significantly, it demonstrated how the Japanese could be defeated. The lessons learned in this tiny and otherwise insignificant corner of the Far East, set up the campaign in Burma that would follow, as General Slim's Fourteenth Army finally turned defeat into victory.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ASIAN HISTORY. Back in February 1944, a rag-taggle collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War. The Defence of the Admin Box, fought amongst the paddy fields and jungle of Northern Arakan over a fifteen-day period, turned the battle for Burma. Not only was it the first decisive victory for British troops against the Japanese, more significantly, it demonstrated how the Japanese could be defeated. The lessons learned in this tiny and otherwise insignificant corner of the Far East, set up the campaign in Burma that would follow, as General Slim's Fourteenth Army finally turned defeat into victory.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

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