Burma: The Turning Point
The Turning Point
$64.05
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2003
Summary
The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim but the Japanese 15th Army prepared a final all-out thrust for Imphal. However, the British 4th Corps struck first and, after three weeks, the Japanese were virtually annihilated. This graphic account ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844150267 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844150267 |
| Author: | Ian Lyall Grant |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Leo Cooper Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 594g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 165mm x 240mm |
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About The Author
Ian Lyall Grant
Grant was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1935. In 1938 he was posted out to India to join KGV’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners. After three years in India, half spent on the North-West Frontier, he raised a new Sapper and Miner field company in late 1941. With them he sailed for Burma in March 1942 and joined the 17th Indian Division outside Rangoon. He remained with this division until July 1944. After the war he served for ten months with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan before returning to Britain. He retired from the British Army in 1970.
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