Forgotten Voices of Burma - Thompson Julian
Forgotten Voices of Burma - Thompson Julian From the end of 1941 to 1945, a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II--the Burma Campaign.…
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Forgotten Voices of Burma - Thompson Julian
From the end of 1941 to 1945, a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II--the Burma Campaign. Yet in 1944, following key battles at Kohima and Imphal, and daring operations behind enemy lines by the Chindits, the Commonwealth army were back, retaking lost ground one bloody battle at a time. In 1941, the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese--an enemy more prepared, better organized, and more powerful than anyone had imagined.
But the troops taking part were a forgotten army, and the story of their remarkable feats and their courage remains largely untold to this day. Fighting in dense jungle and open paddy field, this brutal campaign was the longest fought by the British Commonwealth in the Second World War. The Fourteenth Army in Burma became one of the largest and most diverse armies of the