Neither side wanted this fight at the start, but there were many remarkable feats of arms as the war progressed. Michael Hickey describes the highs and lows of the campaign, the personalities involved ...
CONSIDERING the size and importance of the Burma campaign, it has had very little public attention. Events in Burma have been overshadowed by the climax of the war against Germany and the great ...
Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1960-04-01/reconquest-burma-volume-ii-june-1944-august-1945https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews ...
My father has written and had published last month, (October 2003) his war memoirs. The following is the 'blurb' on the cover. I enter it here to give others the oportunity of finding out more, but I ...
1942: Japanese invade Burma. The Burma Independence Army is under the command of Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) father. 1943: Aung San is Minister of War in formally independent but ...
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. xii, 280. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700630414 Victory on the “Forgotten Front” The ...
13:08, Fri, Aug 15, 2025 Updated: 13:26, Fri, Aug 15, 2025 The reconquest of Burma in 1945 was a stonking victory for the multi-ethnic, multi-national 14th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Bill ...
This air movement order authorised my father's evacuation in 1945 from Burma. He'd fought with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers in the "forgotten war". Suffering from dysentery he was rescued by an ...
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous ...