The Road Past Mandalay
Author: John Masters
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: World War, 1939-1945
Page: 341
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A personal story of the Second World War in Burms. India, and Mandalay.Search and Find PDF eBook
Author: John Masters
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: World War, 1939-1945
Page: 341
View: 8545
A personal story of the Second World War in Burms. India, and Mandalay.Author: John Masters
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: N.A
Category: World War, 1939-1945
Page: 343
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Author: Daniel Marston
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0275980030
Category: History
Page: 283
View: 9388
Investigates how the Indian Army turned a major defeat by the Japanese in 1943 into a victory in 1945 through tactical and structural reforms.Author: Gavin Mortimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780964552
Category: History
Page: 304
View: 8613
In this new book, Gavin Mortimer reveals the 12 legendary Special Forces commanders of World War II. Prior to the war, the concept of 'special forces' simply didn't exist, but thanks to visionary leaders like David Stirling and Charles Hunter, our very concept of how wars can be fought and won has totally changed. These 12 men not only reshaped military policy, but they led from the front, accompanying their troops into battle, from the sands of North Africa to jumping on D-Day and infiltrating behind enemy lines. Mortimer also offers a skilful analysis of their qualities as military commanders and the true impact that their own personal actions, as well as those of their units, had on the eventual outcome of the war.Author: Shamsul Islam
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349035157
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 130
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Author: Alan Allport
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300170750
Category: History
Page: 395
View: 1809
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.