HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY: THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN VOLUME 2: India’s Most Dangerous Hour - Tapa dura

Woodburn Kirby, Major General S

 
9781783316816: HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY: THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN VOLUME 2: India’s Most Dangerous Hour
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ISBN 10: 1783316810 ISBN 13: 9781783316816
Editorial: Naval & Military Press Ltd, 2020

Sinopsis

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.

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Editorial
Naval & Military Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1783316810
ISBN 13 
9781783316816
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
662
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