New PDF release: Japan's Last Bid for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944

By Robert Lyman

ISBN-10: 1848845421

ISBN-13: 9781848845428

Robert Lyman’s deep wisdom and figuring out of the struggle in Burma, and the good battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are renowned. during this booklet he makes use of unique files, released works and private money owed to weave jointly a charming account of a few of the bitterest scuffling with of WWII. not just does he use British assets for his learn yet he has additionally integrated fabric from the Naga tribes of north-east India, on whose land those battles have been fought, and from eastern debts, together with interviews with eastern veterans of the scuffling with. therefore he has been in a position to produce what's arguably the main balanced historical past of the battles that have been pivotal in finishing the japanese empire.

Fergal Keane, journalist and writer of highway to Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 wrote to the writer asserting ‘What a triumph! i ended it final evening. you could have performed an excellent activity. I in simple terms want I’d learn it earlier than writing my very own book!’ He is going directly to say ‘Robert Lyman is likely one of the nice writers approximately males and warfare and during this publication he has succeeded in conveying the braveness, genius and folly of an epic fight. i will not give some thought to a author engaged within the topic of the second one international struggle who can fit Lyman for his integrity or the stability of his judgments.’

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