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Book Synopsis Account of the Operations in Burma by : Major Mylne
Download or read book Account of the Operations in Burma written by Major Mylne and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Regiment was equipped with Sherman Tanks and the narrative describes their advance from Meiktila to Rangoon.Well written, with good detail and with many references to individuals.The maps are most helpful in supporting the narrative.Honour and Awards (all ranks) and list of officers who served in the campaign.
Book Synopsis An Account of the Operations in Burma Carried Out by Probyn's Horse by : B. H. Mylne
Download or read book An Account of the Operations in Burma Carried Out by Probyn's Horse written by B. H. Mylne and published by . This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Burma by : Richard Duckett
Download or read book The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Burma written by Richard Duckett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population. The men of the SOE, trained in sabotage and guerrilla warfare, worked in the jungle, deep behind enemy lines, to frustrate the puppet Burmese government of Ba Maw and continue the fight against Hirohito's Japan in a theatre starved of resources. Here, Richard Duckett uses newly declassified documents from the National Archives to reveal for the first time the extent of British special forces' involvement - from the 1941 operations until beyond Burma's independence from the British Empire in 1948. Duckett argues convincingly that `Operation Character' and `Operation Billet' - large SOE missions launched in support of General Slim's XIV Army offensive to liberate Burma - rank among the most militarily significant of the SOE's secret missions. Featuring a wealth of photographs and accompanying material never before published, including direct testimony recorded by veterans of the campaign and maps from the SOE files, The SOE in Burma tells a compelling story of courage and struggle in during World War II
Book Synopsis The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by : Thant Myint-U
Download or read book The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century written by Thant Myint-U and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s 2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future. Burma is today a fragile stage for nearly all the world’s problems. Are democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people possible in Burma? In clear and urgent prose, Myint-U explores this question—a concern not just for the Burmese but for the rest of the world—warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change.
Book Synopsis Brief History of the Operations in Burma, 1st November 1944 - 3rd May, 1945 by : Allied Forces. Southeast Asia Command
Download or read book Brief History of the Operations in Burma, 1st November 1944 - 3rd May, 1945 written by Allied Forces. Southeast Asia Command and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Behind the Burma Road by : William Raymond Peers
Download or read book Behind the Burma Road written by William Raymond Peers and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Among the Headhunters by : Robert Lyman
Download or read book Among the Headhunters written by Robert Lyman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the doomed aircraft survived-it remains the largest civilian evacuation of an aircraft by parachute. But they fell from the frying pan into the fire. Disentangling themselves from their parachutes, the shocked survivors discovered that they had arrived in wild country dominated by a tribe with a special reason to hate white men. The Nagas were notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice, their specialty being the removal of enemy heads. Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans. Among the Headhunters tells-for the first time-the incredible true story of the adventures of these men among the Naga warriors, their sustenance from the air by the USAAF, and their ultimate rescue. It is also a story of two very different worlds colliding-young Americans, exuberant apostles of their country's vast industrial democracy, coming face-to-face with the Naga, an ancient tribe determined to preserve its local power based on headhunting and slaving.
Book Synopsis History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891]. by :
Download or read book History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The OSS in Burma by : Troy J. Sacquety
Download or read book The OSS in Burma written by Troy J. Sacquety and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese," said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it "the most forbidding fighting country imaginable." But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most successful combat operations of World War II. Troy Sacquety takes readers into Burma's steaming jungles in the first book to fully cover the exploits and contributions of the OSS's Detachment 101 against the Japanese Imperial Army. Functioning independently of both the U.S. Army and OSS headquarters-and with no operational or organizational model to follow-Detachment 101 was given enormous latitude in terms of developing its mission and methods. It grew from an inexperienced and poorly supported group of 21 agents training on the job in a lethal environment to a powerful force encompassing 10,000 guerrillas (spread across as many as 8 battalions), 60 long-range agents, and 400 short-range agents. By April 1945, it remained the only American ground force in North Burma while simultaneously conducting daring amphibious operations that contributed to the liberation of Rangoon. With unrivaled access to OSS archives, Sacquety vividly recounts the 101's story with a depth of detail that makes the disease-plagued and monsoon-drenched Burmese theater come unnervingly alive. He describes the organizational evolution of Detachment 101 and shows how the unit's flexibility allowed it to evolve to meet the changing battlefield environment. He depicts the Detachment's two sharply contrasting field commanders: headstrong Colonel Carl Eifler, who pushed the unit beyond its capabilities, and the more measured Colonel William Peers, who molded it into a model special operations force. He also highlights the heroic Kachin tribesmen, fierce fighters defending their tribal homeland and instrumental in acclimating the Americans to terrain, weather, and cultures in ways that were vital to the success of the Detachment's operations. While veterans' memoirs have discussed OSS activities in Burma, this is the first book to describe in detail how it achieved its success—portraying an operational unit that can be seen as a prototype for today's Special Forces. Featuring dozens of illustrations, The OSS in Burma rescues from oblivion the daring exploits of a key intelligence and military unit in Japan's defeat in World War II and tells a gripping story that will satisfy scholars and buffs alike.
Book Synopsis Our Burmese Wars and Relations With Burma: Being an Abstract of Military and Political Operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, With Various Local, Statis by : William Ferguson Beatson Laurie
Download or read book Our Burmese Wars and Relations With Burma: Being an Abstract of Military and Political Operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, With Various Local, Statis written by William Ferguson Beatson Laurie and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Burmese Wars and Relations with Burma provides readers with a detailed account of the military and political operations that took place in Burma between 1824 and 1879. The work also includes local, statistical, and commercial information that provides readers with a complete picture of the situation in Burma during this time period. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Burma Road written by Donovan Webster and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the effort by 200,000 Chinese laborers to build a seven-hundred-mile road through the jungle to Rangoon, Burma, in order to keep the Chinese supplied throughout the war with Japan.
Book Synopsis An Account of the Burman Empire ... A Description of different tribes inhabiting in and around that dominion; and a Narrative of the late military and political operations in the Burmese Empire, with some account of the present condition of the country, its manners, customs and inhabitants. By Henry G. Bell. [With a map.] by :
Download or read book An Account of the Burman Empire ... A Description of different tribes inhabiting in and around that dominion; and a Narrative of the late military and political operations in the Burmese Empire, with some account of the present condition of the country, its manners, customs and inhabitants. By Henry G. Bell. [With a map.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Burma Campaign written by and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army’s report on the Japanese invasion of Burma during WWII—based on firsthand accounts by the officers who survived it. In 1942, the Japanese military drove British and Indian forces out of Burma. Colonel E.C.V. Foucar, M.C., was given the task of discovering what happened. Seeking information and documentary evidence from officers of the First Burma Campaign, Foucar wrote this detailed account for the Director of Military Training. This volume describes the challenging geographical, climatic, and political conditions in Burma before turning to the devastating Japanese ground assault. He describes harrowing episodes such as the ‘Disaster’ at Sittang Bridge, the evacuation of Rangoon, and the march to the River Irrawaddy in an attempt to secure the north of Burma and its oilfields. With the Japanese closing in on the beleaguered British force, the decision was taken to abandon Burma and try to reach India. The ragged, disease-ridden troops battled their way west just as the monsoons broke. General Wavell, wrote that, “operations were now a race with the weather as with the Japanese and as much a fight against nature as against the enemy.”
Book Synopsis An Account of the Operations in Burma Carried out by Probyn's Horse by : Major B. H. Mylne
Download or read book An Account of the Operations in Burma Carried out by Probyn's Horse written by Major B. H. Mylne and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Regiment was equipped with Sherman Tanks and the narrative describes their advance from Meiktila to Rangoon. Well written, with good detail and with many references to individuals. The maps are most helpful in supporting the narrative. Honour and Awards (all ranks) and list of officers who served in the campaign.
Book Synopsis No Surrender in Burma by : Fred C. Goode
Download or read book No Surrender in Burma written by Fred C. Goode and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This British Commando’s WWII memoir recounts his attempt to escape Japanese-occupied Burma and his harrowing experiences as a POW. This is the extraordinary story of Lance Corporal Fred Goode, a British Commando stationed in Burma in 1941. Cut off behind enemy lines the following year, Goode walked 2,000 miles towards India and freedom, but was betrayed to Japanese forces only 20 miles short of his destination. Tortured by the infamous Kempeitai—Imperial Japan’s military police—Goode was then sent to Rangoon's notorious Central Jail, where he remained a prisoner of war until Japan’s surrender. Goode was one of fifty men sent to Burma to support and train Chinese forces fighting in Japanese-occupied China. With Japan's entry into World War II in December of that year, their mission expanded to include destroying airfields and taking bullion to India. When they were overtaken by enemy forces before crossing the Irrawaddy River, their commanding officer instructed them to split into four groups and head for India or Yunnan. Of the original fifty, only eight survived.
Book Synopsis Air Commandos Against Japan by : William T. Y'Blood
Download or read book Air Commandos Against Japan written by William T. Y'Blood and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "1943, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, the commanding general of U.S. Army Air Forces, wanted to demonstrate that Allied forces could use "ships in the air" (just like the Navy used ships on the sea)to stage an aerial invasion of Burma. Air Commandos against Japan tells the story of how within a few short months these daring aviators trained and equipped an entirely new kind of organization, moved it to India, established bases, and then led it into combat in support of an eccentric and combative British officer named Orde C. Wingate." "In Japanese-occupied Burma, where terrain made a textbook frontal assault on the Japanese impossible, the Air Commandos took an unorthodox approach to the fight, using unconventional hit-and-run tactics to confuse the enemy and to destroy their lines of communication and supply. This book describes how the unit successfully attacked the enemy from the air, resupplied British commandos on the ground, and airlifted the wounded out of the battle area - eventually driving the Japanese out of Burma."--BOOK JACKET.
Author :James Kiero Watson Publisher :Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University ISBN 13 : Total Pages :108 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Military Operations in Burma, 1890-1892 by : James Kiero Watson
Download or read book Military Operations in Burma, 1890-1892 written by James Kiero Watson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. This book was released on 1967 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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