The Battle for Burma: An Illustrated History - Rilegato

Nesbit, Roy Conyers

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ISBN 10: 1844159558 ISBN 13: 9781844159550

Casa editrice: Pen & Sword, 2010

Riassunto

The struggle of British, Commonwealth and American-Chinese troops against the Japanese in Burma was one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War. British India was threatened by the Japanese advance, the fate of the British Empire in the East hung in the balance. The tropical climate - dense malarial jungle infested with vermin and swept by monsoon rains - made the fighting, for both sides, a remarkable feat of arms. Yet the war in Burma rarely receives the attention it deserves. Roy C. Nesbit, in this highly illustrated account, traces the entire course of the campaign. In vivid detail he describes the British retreat and humiliation at the hands of the Japanese invaders in 1942. The Japanese were fanatical and trained in jungle warfare, well-equipped and backed with an overwhelming air power. The Allied response was to build up their forces on a massive scale - eventually over 1,300,000 personnel were involved - and to train them to fight in the jungle conditions. Their counter-offensive, launched in 1944, culminated in the battles at Imphal and Kohima which turned the course of the conflict, and the reconquest of Burma was achieved just before the atom bomb was dropped.

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Recensione:

'Roy Conyers Nesbit makes a strong contribution to giving the Burma campaign the profile that it deserves...this is a first class book indeed and a must-read for any military history enthusiast. This is already a contender for my 'military history book of the year'. Not bad for a book released on 7 January!' --Daly History Blog, 28 January 2010

A vivid portrait of the gruelling campaign in Burma that, though often forgotten, proved the turning point at the battles of Kohima and Imphal of the war in the far east. It was a war in which the jungle terrain was almost as merciless as the Japanese enemy - and Roy Conyers Nesbit had written a brilliant account of it. --Chris Buckland

L'autore:

Roy Conyers Nesbit has a long-established reputation as a leading historian of the Second World War. His service in the RAF during the war included a period as a navigator and bomb-aimer in Beauforts of Coastal Command, mainly attacking U-boat ports in Western France. At the end of the war he served in India and South-East Asia. He has made a particular study of the war in the air and at sea. His many books include The Royal Air Force: An Illustrated History From 1918, RAF in Camera, The Battle of Britain, The Battle For Europe, Arctic Airmen, Eyes of the RAF, The Battle of the Atlantic, Ultra Versus U-Boats and Reported Missing. Roy C. Nesbit lives in Wiltshire.

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• Editore: Pen & Sword
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844159558
• ISBN 13: 9781844159550
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256