Epilogue in Burma, 1945-48
Author | : John Hartnett McEnery |
Publisher | : Spellmount, Limited Publishers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Hartnett McEnery |
Publisher | : Spellmount, Limited Publishers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Forsdike |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2024-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1399079298 |
A history of the Second Suffolk, 5th (Indian) Division during World War II's Burma campaign. Between December 1943 and August 1944, Second Suffolk, as part of the 5th (Indian) Division, played a key role opposing the Japanese in Burma and later at the critical battle at Imphal. The odds could not have been higher or the challenges greater. The Japanese had already earned an awesome reputation as a formidable and ruthless enemy who could only be described as fanatical. The rugged jungle terrain, over which the Battalion had to fight, was tough and unforgiving and pushed all ranks to the limits of their physical and mental endurance. Against them too was the harsh tropical climate and the extremes of the monsoon season. The combination of these three factors called for the highest standards of leadership and discipline. Supplies too were often not forthcoming but despite these difficulties and a lack of appreciation of their efforts in the press at home, morale of the stolid regular Suffolk soldier and his newer drafted comrades, always remained high as they learned to fight their enemy in the way that he fought him. For over seventy-five years their story has remained largely forgotten and untold but, now drawing on previously unpublished accounts of those who served there, together with unpublished photographs, this book describes the Battalion’s outstanding service during the Burma Campaign.
Author | : Smith Dun |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501719092 |
The Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese Army, nicknamed the "four-foot Colonel," offers an account of his nation's struggle for independence from a unique perspective. General Dun describes his background, his early life and training (in England and India), and his involvement with the Burmese nationalist movement. He also explains his position in the struggles between the emerging Burmese nation and various minority groups such as the Karens, of which he was a member. This third-person account is filled with humor and insight and allows the reader a rare glimpse into the mind of a powerful personality.
Author | : Paul Keenan |
Publisher | : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9382573712 |
Burma has been racked by extensive ethnic conflict. As numerous groups sought to secure their individual ethnic rights, successive Burmese governments sought to destroy them through numerous counter-insurgency measures, negotiated ceasefires, and by integrating them into Burma Army controlled Border Guard Forces or militias. ‘By Force of Arms' provides background information on the numerous armed ethnic groups that have emerged in the country since independence. It highlights the various reasons for conflict and argues that while military force has been successfully used in preserving ethnic rights, as the country moves forward, new methods have to be explored. It states that for genuine peace to be attained, armed ethnic groups need to reassess their methodologies and motivations and both the Government and Non-State Armed Actors need to hold substantive political dialogue before there can be genuine peace.
Author | : Bernard Fergusson |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 147387842X |
Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a Brigadier, leading the only Brigade in the new force which entered Burma on foot. It was one of four Brigades which established well-defended strongholds within Japanese-occupied Burma. Fergusson also reflects candidly, and often humorously, on different aspects of the campaign. These include the ingenuity and sheer courage of the US Army Air Force pilots who flew in supplies and evacuated wounded. One glider pilot whom Fergusson saw making a particularly bad landing turned out to be Jackie Coogan, child star of Chaplin's The Kid, and later known as Uncle Fenster of the Addams Family. In apparently light hearted, but often profound sections, he analyses the management of a large and diverse force, up against physical extremes far from normal amenities and command structures; the importance of maintaining morale and of medical management; and, not least, an immediate portrait of Wingate himself, whose death at a crucial stage of the campaign and the conflicting or at least confusing orders he left behind directly affected Fergusson's men and the fate of the campaign.The Wild Green Earth follows the author's account of the 1943 campaign, Beyond the Chindwin. Both were written with the events, and reactions even the smells fresh in the author's mind, and vividly but sensitively conveyed. The excitement of the narrative remains today. And the reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.
Author | : John Randolph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Long Range Penetration Group, langdistancerangers, Kommando-operationer; Nord-Burma, Jungleekspedition, Namhpakka-Hosi-felttoget; Jungle-march; Kampe ved Burma-vejen.
Author | : E. D. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Will Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Details the British Army's fight against the Japanese Army in Burma that was the turning point in the war in the Pacific theater.
Author | : Kevin Heppner |
Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Child soldiers |
ISBN | : 9781564322791 |
Life as a Soldier
Author | : Shelford Bidwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : |