Burma, 1942 : the road from Rangoon to Mandalay
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Burma, 1942 : the road from Rangoon to Mandalay
Continuum, 2011
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-275) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a comprehensive and challenging study of one of the key conflicts of WWII. 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. Alan Warren provides a new study of the series of battles that made up the Burma campaign, including first-hand accounts of the conflict and a fresh examination of the armies and commanders of the major combatants. "Burma 1942" powerfully demonstrates how victory or defeat in particular battles altered the trajectory of the conflict, affecting the lives of millions.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Maps
- 1 British Burma
- 2 Imperial Japan and Preparations for War
- 3 War comes to South-East Asia
- 4 The Invasion of Burma and the loss of Tenasserim
- 5 Across the Salween River
- 6 The Battle of Bilin River
- 7 Retreat from Bilin River
- 8 The Sittang Bridge
- 9 The Demolition of the Sittang Bridge
- 10 Rangoon in the Firing Line
- 11 The Royal Navy in South-East Asia
- 12 Retreat from Rangoon
- 13 The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet
- 14 Admiral Nagumo's Raid on Ceylon
- 15 The Oilfields of Yenangyaung
- 16 Retreat to India
- 17 The Consequences of Defeat
- Appendix
- Index.
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