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: The sheer size and influence of the British Indian Army, and its major role in the Allied War effort between 1939 and 1945 on behalf of a country from which it was seeking independence, maintains its fascination as a subject for a wide variety of historians...read more

Product Description: Not all World War II battles were fought in the skies, seas, or frontlines. Some of the hardest battles were personal, fought by servicemen while separated from the women they loved. When he was drafted into the U. S. Army, Bill Graham was just a skinny kid who'd never even traveled beyond the borders of Tennessee...read more

Over 63 years the author experienced 19 incidents where his life and those around him were saved by an angelic presence.

Product Description: Libby Chitwood Appel has produced for our enjoyment an endearing memoir of her life and times as a Red Cross worker during World War II. A childhood admirer of Florence Nightingale, her dreams of extending warmth, sympathy, and brief touches of home were finally realized in war canteens from Washington D...read more

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Product Description: The period of World War II now slips beyond the recall of most readers today. Yet that fact largely explains the mysterious appeal of personal memoirs of the epoch. Richard Terrell's vivid recollections retrieve something otherwise lost forever...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The last days of the Raj bring to mind Gandhi's nonviolence and Nehru's diplomacy. These associations obscure another reality: that an army of Indian men and women who tried to throw the British off the subcontinent. The Forgotten Army brings to life for the first time the story of how Subhas Chandra Bose, a charismatic Bengali, attempted to liberate India with an army of former British Indian soldiers--the Indian National Army (INA).The story begins with the British Indian Army fighting a heroic rearguard action against the invading Japanese down the Malaysian peninsula and ends with many of these same soldiers defeated in their effort to invade India as allies of Japan. Peter Ward Fay intertwines powerful descriptions of military action with a unique knowledge of how the INA was formed and its role in the broader struggle for Indian independence.Fay incorporates the personal reminiscences of Prem Saghal, a senior officer in the INA, and Lakshmi Swaminadhan, leader of its women's sections, to help the reader understand the motivations of those who took part. Their experiences offer an engagingly personal counterpoint to the political and military history.". . . a well-crafted and thought-provoking mixture of oral history and original research, providing the most comprehensive account yet published of the events leading to the formation of the INA." --Guardian"Fay has made a magnificent attempt to analyse all the credible information on the history of [Subhas Chandra] Bose's legendary Indian National Army (INA)." --Times Higher Education Supplement"This fine study of the Indian National Army (INA) seeks to demonstrate this army's significance in the attainment of Indian independence and the termination of the British Empire. . . . Throughout, Fay seeks to explain why 'constant and true' Indians like Sahgal and Swaminadhan chose to fight alongside the Japanese and against the British . . . ." -- Pacific AffairsPeter Ward Fay is Professor of History, California Institute of Technology.

The author recounts his career as a soldier and describes his experiences in British-ruled India, World War II, and as founder of the Pakistan Military Academy

Picture essays combine with information on Japan's invasion of China, the activities of the Chinese Nationalists, and American military operations in the C-B-I theater