Burma '44: the battle that turned World War II in the East
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| Abstract: | "Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East. In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to defeat a much larger and sophisticated contingent of some of the finest infantry in the Japanese army on their march towards India. What became known as the Battle 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. Lessons learned in this tiny and otherwise insignificant corner of the Far East, set up the campaign in Burma that would follow, as General William Slim's Fourteenth Army finally turned defeat into victory. In Burma '44, acclaimed World War II historian James Holland offers a dramatic tale of victory against incredible odds. As momentous as the Battle of the Bulge ten months later, the Admin Box was a triumph of human grit and heroism and remains one of the most significant yet undervalued conflicts of the entire war. In Holland's hands, it is finally given its proper place in the history of the war." |
| Item Description: | First published in 2016 in Great Britain by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers |
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 413 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780802160584 |
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Contents List of Maps Introduction Cast List Prologue: Surrounded xiii xxiii xxvii 1 Part I: The Arakan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 New Command The Four Challenges Flyboys The Supermen Jungle Patrol To the Front Famine and Revolt The Arakan The Woodpeckers’ Victory Beckoning Glory Air Battles Over the Arakan Tortoise 25 46 58 71 80 99 110 122 143 156 172 186 Part II: The Battle of the Admin Box 13 14 15 16 17 18 The First Day: Morning The First Day: Afternoon The Second Day: the Pass is Cut The Attack on the MDS The Third Day: Ammunition Hill Blood Nullah 211 223 237 248 260 274
19 20 21 22 23 24 Attack in the Night The Fifth Day Artillery Hill Attrition Exhaustion The End of the Siege Postscript Order of Battle Admin Box Timeline References Sources Glossary Acknowledgements Picture Acknowledgements Index 290 297 309 319 333 347 361 369 373 379 391 397 399 401 405 |
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