The Battle of Kohima

Résumé du livre

"According to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Kohima "will probably go down as one of the greatest battles in history." The battle took place in that part of the world where India and Burma meet, an area of "hellish jungle-mountains." In the spring of 1944 the Japanese army began what Toyko radio called "The March on Delhi"; by summer, the remnants of thsoe "invincible" Japanese troops were struggling back across Burma: at the twin battles of Kohima and Imphal they had met British and Indian forces head-on. They were beaten in a crucial action which has ranked with Alamein, Midway, and Stalingrad as one of the great turning points of World War II. Arthur Swinson has drawn on many unpublished documents and diaries from Japanese as well as Allied sources."--Jacket.