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Stilwell and the Chindits: The Allied Campaign in Northern Burma 1943 - 1944. Rare photographs from wartime archives

Door Jon Diamond

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#229661
Titel
Stilwell and the Chindits: The Allied Campaign in Northern Burma 1943 - 1944. Rare photographs from wartime archives
Auteur
Diamond, Jon
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Pen & Sword
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
1783831987
ISBN13
9781783831982
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, large 8vo.
Samenvatting
This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train up two Chinese divisions and together with a US special force (Merrill's Marauders) advance to seize the key Japanese base at Myitkyina.?? At the same time Brigadier Orde Wingate and his 77 Brigade (known as the Chindits) penetrated and fought deep behind Japanese lines. While the success of this Operation (LONG STOP) remains debatable, the Chindits' courage and determination destroyed the myth of Japanese invincibility. Despite terrible deprivation a second much larger operation (THURSDAY) went... (Lees verder) ahead.?? As this highly informative and well illustrated book reveals, the concept was ultimately successful with Myitkyina falling to Stilwell's Chinese/US force in mid 1944. The Chindits and Maranders, now greatly depleted by enemy action, malnutrition and disease were evacuated to India but became legends.
Pagina's
238
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 10,00

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