The 1945 Burma Campaign and the transformation of the British Indian Army

Author/Creator:: Callahan, Raymond, author
Publication/Creation:: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: The 1945 Burma Campaign and the transformation of the British Indian Army / Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston
Series Titles:: Modern war studies
Modern war studies.

Subjects:: India.Army--History--World War, 1939-1945
Great Britain.Army.Army, XIV
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma
World War, 1939-1945--Japan
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945--India

Summary:: "In November 1944, in the aftermath of the crushing defeat he had inflicted on the Japanese at Imphal in India, Lt. Gen. Sir William Slim, commander of Britain's XIV Army, revisited the site on the east bank of the Chindwin River where, as he retreated from Burma in 1942, he had destroyed his remaining tanks, motor vehicles and field artillery pieces which could not be gotten across. "Some of what we owed we had repaid," he wrote of that moment, "now we were going pay back the rest, with interest." This is the story of that payback: the retaking of Burma. Behind this dramatic story is another. The end of the British Raj in India was brought about by many factors, but not the least of them was the "Indianization" of the British Indian Army's officer corps (whereas before, officers had been British and white). This was a sign that the curtain was coming down on the Raj. India achieved its independence in 1947"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.