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A WAR OF EMPIRES

JAPAN, INDIA, BURMA & BRITAIN: 1941–45

Autore: Robert Lyman

Codice: 228049

€ 31,50

L'acclamato storico Robert Lyman racconta abilmente gli intrecci tra l’esercito britannico e quello giapponese, e di come un nuovo esercito indiano, risorto dalle ceneri della sconfitta, avrebbe cambiato sorti della guerra.

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In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place, and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert Lyman expertly retells these coordinated efforts and describes how a new volunteer Indian Army, rising from the ashes of defeat, would ferociously fight to turn the tide of war.

But victory did not come immediately. It wasn't until March 1944, when the Japanese staged their famed ‘March on Delhi', that the years of rebuilding reaped their reward and after bitter fighting, the Japanese were finally defeated at Kohima and Imphal. This was followed by a series of extraordinary victories culminating in Mandalay in May 1945 and the collapse of all Japanese forces in Burma. The Indian Army's contribution has been consistently forgotten and ignored by many Western historians, Robert Lyman proves how vital this hard-fought campaign was in securing Allied victory in the east, defeating Japanese militarism and ultimately redrawing the map of the region with an independent India, free from the shackles of empire, all but guaranteed.

CONTENTS

SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION

Author's Note

Timeline

Introduction

Part 1 - Hubris, 1942

Prologue - Major John Hedley, 4 Burma Rifles

1. Burma at the Intersection of History

2. Defending Burma (Badly)

3. A Hurried and Ill-Considered Plan

4. The First Shots

5. ‘We Could at Any Rate Send a Man'

6. A Slim Chance to Save Burma

7. The Battle for Lower Burma

8. Exodus

9. Independence Armies

10. The Reason Why

Part 2 - Hiatus, 1943

Prologue - Lieutenant Philip Brownless, 1 Essex Regiment

11. Aftermath

12. Taking Stock

13. Arakan Round One

14. Bharat Choro!

15. Vinegar Joe's Travails

16. Trying to Crack the Donbaik Nut

17. Irwin's Blame Game

18. ‘Our New God, Orde Wingate'

19. Re-thinking Training

20. Building a Base

21. ‘A Blind Man Searching for a Black Cat in a Dark Room'

Part 3 - Resurrection, 1944

Prologue - Lieutenant John Twells, 1 Gurkha Rifles

22. Arakan, Again

23. Ha-Go

24. Okeydoke

25. Sinzweya

26. The March on Delhi

27. Cock-up on the Tiddim Road

28. The Chindwin

29. Thermopylae in the Naga Hills

30. The Spokes of the Wheel

31. Forty-Seven Days of Battle: Kohima

32. Seventy-Six Days of Siege: Imphal

33. Down the Hukawng Valley to Myitkyina

34. The Road of Bones

Part 4 - Redemption, 1945

Prologue - Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Pettigrew, 2

14 Punjab

35. What to Do About Burma?

36. A Change of Plan

37. Third Time Lucky in Arakan

38. Meiktila and Mandalay

39. Extract Digit!

40. The Empire Strikes Back

Appendix 1: The Indian and Gurkha Infantry Regiments of the Indian Army

Appendix 2: Indian Army Structure and Numbers - 9 September 1943

Appendix 3: Definitive Numbers for Indian Army in SEAC

Appendix 4: Estimates of Japanese Soldiers in Operation U-Go

Further Reading

Notes

Index

 

Lingua

INGLESE

Pagine

560

Misure

16 X 24

Rilegato

SI

ISBN
9781472847140