Isbn: 9780450023088 - little men (1 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. Creasing to covers. Ink scribbles on the letters "LITT" on cover title.; Paperback reprint. 174, [2 (advertisements) pages. 3 full page maps. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 179 x 107mm. "A platoon's epic fight in the Burma campaign" - from front cover. Narrative of the Burma campaign, World War Two. "The Burma campaign, in which General Slim's 14th Army halted the Japanese at the mountain passed into India and finally drover them back across the Irrawaaddy, completely destroying them, was one of the last, the greatest and the least puvlicised of the allied victories of the SEcond World War. At Kohima, Imphal and elsewhere the Imperial Japanese Army suffered widespread defeat. Ken Cooper served as an infantry platoon and commander in this historic campaign. 'The Little Men' is based on the notes and records he made in 1945 when the fighting was over. His accounts of patrol-engagements, night-fighting, special attacks, including the momentous large-scale operation of crossing the vast Irrawaddy, are written in a spirt of graphic freshness with which war etches its incidents in the mind of a young man." - from blurb on rear cover.…