Tales From Life And The Battle Of Kohima
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Tales From Life And The Battle Of Kohima
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Author : Richard PATTERSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-21
Tales From Life And The Battle Of Kohima written by Richard PATTERSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with categories.
In this book are tales that Richard wrote about his schooldays and his time in India and at the battle of Kohima. The following are his own words:I was born in Salford on 16th August 1921. Attended St. Paul's C of E school Kersal; lr. Kersal Council School, and Grecian St. Central School. After leaving school in 1935 I worked as a Pawn Broker's Clerk until the outbreak of war in 1939. Having joined the Territoral Army in February 1939 I was called up for full time service on the 1st of September.Being under age for service overseas (which at the time was 18 and three months) I was posted with others to our reserve Battalion and sent on guard duties to the Royal Ordnance Factory at Chorley.After the fall of France in June 1940 everyone was on invasion alert, and we were sent to Lowestoft on the East coast where we were frantically employed in digging trenches, manning pill boxes and keeping our eyes skinned for invasion barges.In April 1942 after re-joining my old Battalion we embarked with the 2nd British Division in the largest military convoy ever to be organised. Orders were to sail west out into the Atlantic, turn south and east for the Cape, then to continue up the eastern shores of Africa to Suez. The plan was for the Division to join the 8th Army for its next campaign in the desert; but some time in May, new orders reached the convoy commander, and, the 16,000 troops found themselves disembarking at Bombay.We spent two years in India on Combined Operations with the Navy; and jungle training in Southern India, before being flown up to Assam to oppose the Japanese in their attempt to invade India.After fighting from Kohima to Mandalay we were flown back to India to train in street fighting in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
Kohima 1944
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Author : Robert Lyman
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11-23
Kohima 1944 written by Robert Lyman and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with History categories.
Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Kohima during World War II (1939-1945), which saved India from Japanese attacks. In March 1944 the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising by the Indian populace against British rule. The Japanese plan would rely on mobility, infiltration and captured supplies to maintain the momentum of the attack. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention away from the Imphal area where the brunt of the U-Go attacks would take place. But British forces employed new defensive techniques to counter the Japanese infiltration tactics; forming defensive boxes, supplied by air, they held out against determined Japanese assaults until the Japanese were forced to withdraw, short of supplies. These tactics were again employed on a larger scale when Imphal and Kohima were surrounded during Operation U-Go. Kohima (the 'Stalingrad of the East') was the crucial key point to the successful defence of Imphal, and took place in two stages. From 3 to 16 April the Japanese attempted to capture Kohima Ridge, which dominated the road along which the British and Indian troops centred on the Imphal plain were supplied. As the small garrison held out against fierce and repeatedly desperate attempts by the Japanese 31st Division to destroy them, so the British 2nd Division fought to break through and relieve them. Then for over two months from 18 April, British and Indian troops counter-attacked in an effort to drive the Japanese from the positions they had already captured that blocked the road to Imphal. The battle ended on June 22 when British and Indian troops from Kohima and Imphal met at Milestone 109, thus ending the siege.
A Respectable Woman
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Author : Easterine Kire
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2019-02-28
A Respectable Woman written by Easterine Kire and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Drama categories.
‘It took my mother, Khonuo, exactly forty-five years before she could bring herself to talk about the war.’ These powerful words introduce the reader to Easterine Kire’s stunning new novel, A Respectable Woman. In Nagaland, the decisive Battle of Kohima has been fought and won by the Allies, and people in and around Kohima are trying hard to come to terms with the devastation, the loss of home and property, and the deaths of their loved ones. Forty years after the event, Khonuo recreates this moment, stitching together her memories, bit by painful bit, for her young daughter. As memory passes from mother to daughter, the narrative glides seamlessly into the present, a moment in which Nagaland, much transformed, confronts different realities and challenges. Using storytelling traditions so typical of her region, Kire leads the reader gently into a world where history and memory meld — where, through this blurring, a young woman comes to understand the legacy of her parents and her land.
Not Ordinary Men
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Author : John Colvin
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2012-11-19
Not Ordinary Men written by John Colvin and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with History categories.
Having driven the British and Indian Forces out of Burma in 1942, General Mutaguchi, Commanding the 15th Japanese Army, was obsessed by the conquest of India. In 1944 the British 14th Army, under its commander General Slim, drew back to the Imphal Plain, before Mutaguchis impending offensive. To the north, however, the entire Japanese 31 Division had crossed the Chindwin and, on April 5, arrived at the hill-station and road junction of Kohima, cutting off Imphal except by air, from the supply point at Dimpapur.Kohima was initially manned by only 266 men of the Assam Regiment and a few hundred convalescents and administrative troops. They were joined, on April 5, by 440 men of the Fourth Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment, straight from the Battle of Arakan.In pouring rain, under continual bombardment, this tiny garrison held the assaults of thirteen thousand Japanese troops in hand-to-hand combat for sixteen days, an action described by Mountbatten as probably one of the greatest battles in history ... in effect the Battle of Burma, naked, unparalleled heroism, the British/Indian Thermopylae.
Kohima
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Author : Leslie Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Kohima written by Leslie Edwards and has been published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
"By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospitable border of what was then Burma, and invaded India. At the township of Kohima they were met by a small, hastily assembled force of Indian and British troops, later reinforced by 2 Division of Slim's 14 Army, who fought valiantly and forced the Japanese to retreat. Described by Mountbatten as 'the British/Indian Thermopylae', Kohima was a turning point in Japanese fortunes, heralding their continued defeat in battle until their formal surrender on 2 September 1945. Using extensive research in primary sources and many previously unpublished first-hand accounts, Leslie Edwards presents a definitive analysis of this pivotal battle." --Book Jacket.
The Road To Kohima
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Author : Charles Chasie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-22
The Road To Kohima written by Charles Chasie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-22 with categories.
A unique collaboration between a senior Naga journalist and an eminent British historian looking at Naga involvement in the Second World War after Japanese and British forces converged on their land. The devastating battle lasted only a few months but in that time the Nagas played a key part in what was recently voted Britain's greatest battle.
Not Ordinary Men The Story Of The Battle Of Kohima
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Author : John Colvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Not Ordinary Men The Story Of The Battle Of Kohima written by John Colvin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Kohima, Battle of, Kohima, India, 1944 categories.
Ancient Naga Head Hunters Lives And Tales In Prose And Poetry
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Author : Tsuknug Penzu
language : en
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Release Date : 2009
Ancient Naga Head Hunters Lives And Tales In Prose And Poetry written by Tsuknug Penzu and has been published by Mittal Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Headhunters categories.
Kohima
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Author : Arthur Swinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Kohima written by Arthur Swinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Kohima (India) categories.
A classic account of a decisive battle of World War II, told by a man who fought there himself Delving into the battle described by Mountbatten as "one of the greatest battles in history," this is a thrilling tale of heroism and combat action. On March 7, 1944, Tokyo announced that the Japanese invasion of British India had begun. By mid-month, the Japanese had crossed the Chindwin River in northern Burma, advancing towards Imphal and Kohima. In bitter jungle fighting from early April, the British Fourteenth Army, under Field Marshal Slim, held the Japanese assault on Kohima Ridge. By late June the Japanese were in headlong retreat. Drawing on documents and diaries from Japanese as well as Allied sources, Arthur Swinson presents a fascinating account of a battle that ranks with Alamein, Midway, and Stalingrad as one of the most strategically important of World War II.
Road Of Bones
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Author : Fergal Keane
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011
Road Of Bones written by Fergal Keane and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War.