Burma '44 : the battle that turned the war in the Far East / James Holland.
By: Holland, James [author.]
.Publisher: London : Bantam Press, 2016Description: xxiv, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593075852; 9780593075869.Other title: Burma 44 | Burma forty-four | Burma 1944.Note: Gift: Lord Trefgarne. Inscription on title page by donor and Viscount Slim.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma | World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain | World War, 1939-1945 -- JapanDDC classification: 940.542591 Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 940.542591 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 009745 |
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.
Gift: Lord Trefgarne. Inscription on title page by donor and Viscount Slim.