Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma Lowry Michael
Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma Lowry Michael This author is extraordinarily lucky to be alive All those who read this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless…
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Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma Lowry Michael
This author is extraordinarily lucky to be alive All those who read this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless come to the same view. This was exciting enough but only a taste of what was to come. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of India where he cut his teeth chasing Pathan tribesman bandit gangs for two years.
Conditions were appalling and the fighting was extremely bitter by any standards. The Japanese advance into Burma threatened India and along with many thousands of British and Colonial troops Lowry found himself fighting in the Arakan region. His Battalion was cut off by the Japs for three weeks but refused to surrender yet even worse was to come as the Battalion was thrown into the thick of the action at Kohima which is rated as the most desperate defensive action for the campaign.
In one week