XIV Army at War - The Forgotten Army by George Forty

Description: XIVth Army, commanded by General Bill Slim fought a bloody and desperate war in defence of India against their Japanese aggressors. Nicknamed ;The Forgotten Army' the campaigners in Burma and the Arakan fought in conditions completely different to those of the Mediterranean and Western Fronts. There was none of the chivalrous mystique of the desert campaigns, nothing of the proximity of Europe - simply jungle, monsoons, mud and and implacable and diehard enemy. After suffering initial defeats, XIVth Army gained a glorious and complete victory, showing that the cosmopolitan army had come to terms with the terrain in a way thet their opponent - renowned for his jungle fighting - could never do. Victory was not simply through the courage of the soldiers, however, but also because of the development in the field of novel methods of jungle warfare - the effective use of armour and artillery and the resupply of forward areas by air. XIVth Army at War is not a history of the campaign, but an evocation of how victory was achieved - the bare bones of war are fleshed out by vivid portraits of the conditions, the men and their commanders, both by first hand accounts and a splendid collection of action pictures. " XIVth Army, nicknamed 'The Forgotten Army', commanded by General Bill Slim, fought a bloody and desperate war ın defence of India, against the Japanese, in Burma in The Second World War. "XIVth ARMY AT WAR" is not a history of the campaign, but an evocation of how victory was achieved - the bare bones of war are fleshed out by vivid potreyals of the conditions, the men and their commanders, both by first hand accounts and a splendid collection of action photographs."144 pages, richly illustrated with black & white photographs and maps throughout. Book in in a good condition.

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