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Laddar... Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalayav Alan Warren
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. An academic history written entirely from secondary sources. The British in Burma, under the Indian 17th Division, were unable to halt the Japanese 33rd and 55th Divisions at the frontier. The 17th Division fell back, but, at a critical period, not fast enough; the Japanese got to the Sittang River faster. The British destroyed the rail bridge over the Sittang wth most of the division on the wrong side. Its personnel crossed the river with only the clothes on their backs, or the surrendered. Slim later told General Smith, the 17th's commander, "Jackie, you dropped your Field-Marshal's baton into the Sittang river." Following the disaster on the Sittang, the British retreated out of Rangoon to the northward, fighting a delaying action againt the Japanese but ultimately retiring over the border of Indian Assam just as the monsoon season began. Eventually, under Slim, they retook Rangoon just as the monsoon began again, but their hold on the country was forever broken. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain's possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain's bluff was called and millions of Britain's 'protected' subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying power. The British fought the Second World War in Burma and India against the backdrop of nationalist unrest and revolt. The appalling Bengal famine of 1943, brought about by the loss of Burma's rice crop and the dislocation of government, would cause the deaths of many. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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