Bøger af Raymond Callahan

In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. This volume offers a full account of this brilliant and original operational maneuver, utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings - including the bits the official historians left out.

The only full account of the British Indian Army's most remarkable transformation and turnaround from serial defeat to victory and war winning triumph in the Asia/Pacific theatre of World War II.

Presents an account of institutional transformation under extreme stress that balances Churchill's self-serving memoirs. This work demonstrates that what political leaders demand from their armies is less important than what those armies are designed to do - and that this oft-recurring disconnect lies at the root of wartime civil-military tension.