Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War In The East

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'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating & neglected battle James Holland is a master of spinning narrative military history from accounts of men & women who were there & BURMA '44 is a veritable page-turner' BBC History In February 1944 a rag-tag collection of clerks drivers doctors muleteers & other base troops stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen & a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army & then defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War What became know as The Defence of the Admin Box fought amongst the paddy fields & jungle of Northern Arakan over a fifteen-day period turned the battle for Burma Not only was it the first decisive victory for British troops against the Japanese more significantly it demonstrated how the Japanese could be defeated The lessons learned in this tiny & otherwise insignificant corner of the Far East set up the campaign in Burma that would follow as General Slim's Fourteenth Army finally turned defeat into victory Burma '44 is a tale of incredible drama As gripping as the story of Rorke's drift as momentous as the battle for the Ardennes the Admin Box was a triumph of human grit & heroism & remains one of the most significant yet undervalued conflicts of World War Two