Product Description: During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army...read more

Product Description: This history book celebrates a near-forgotten band of gallant American airmen, led by Claire Lee Chennault, who served in the midst of a strange land at a time of great turmoil. They arrived in China, not as conquerors, but as codefenders, appreciated by the most humble and grateful Chinese who would smile to them and in many cases utter the only mutually recognizable words of communication: "Ding Hao," meaning "It is good...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A pictorial history of the last one hundred days of the second World War covers the events on land, at sea, and in the air, and features documentary materials from the German, Japanese, and Allied sources in an accessible format.