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Bruno, Anthony Vincent
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Fiction
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2020
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English
β 200 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
Road of bones: the epic siege of Kohima
β Scribed by Fergal Keane
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;Harper Press
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 491 KB
- Edition
- HarperPress pbk ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007132417
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Maps are best viewed on a tablet.
The epic story of one of the most savage battles of the Second World War.
Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was amongst the most savage in modern warfare.
A garrison of no more than 1,500 fighting men, desperately short of water and with the wounded compelled to lie in the open, faced a force of 15,000 Japanese. They held the pass and prevented a Japanese victory that would have proved disastrous for the British. Another six weeks of bitter fighting followed as British and Indian reinforcements strove to drive the enemy out of India. When the battle was over, a Japanese army that had invaded India on a mission of imperial...
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