Description
Product ID: | 9780552172035 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Burma '44 |
Subtitle: | The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East |
Authors: | Author: James Holland |
Page Count: | 448 |
Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, History, Second World War, Battles and campaigns, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Battles & campaigns |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them. It became know as The Defence of the Admin Box. This book deals with this battle. ''A thrilling blow-by-blow account'' The Times |
Imprint Name: | Corgi Books |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-04-20 |