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War in the wilderness : the Chindits in Burma, 1943-1944
- Title
- War in the wilderness : the Chindits in Burma, 1943-1944 / Tony Redding.
- Author
- Redding, Tony.
- Publication
- Stroud : Spellmount, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- 448 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- War in the Wilderness offers the disturbing and harrowing first-hand accounts of no less than 50 veterans of Major-General Orde Wingate's two bitterly-fought campaigns in North Burma in 1943-44. Chindit service in the Burmese jungle was widely acknowledged as the most demanding ground combat role given to any Allied troops in the Second World War, yet the men who made up Special Force were ordinary soldiers, trained in an extraordinary regime to accomplish and survive the impossible. Landed by Glider or Dakota on rough and remote jungle airstrips, hundreds of miles behind Japanese lines, the men lived on emergency rations for months, battling the monsoon conditions, disease and a ruthless enemy. They marched for 1000 miles in tropical conditions, across some of the wildest country on Earth, with half their bodyweight on their backs. The Burma campaign left thousands dead and virtually all survivors were hospitalised. But those who did return remained Chindits for the rest of their lives. Their suffering and achievements were recognised by their place of honour, at the head of the annual Cenotaph parade for many years after the war. In this book Tony Redding has gathered together the memories of those men, who came from every walk of life to fight alongside one another in the most punishing infantry campaign of the conflict.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]) and index
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.An Exceptional Man ... an Extraordinary Personality -- 2.Operation Longcloth: an Experiment in Chindit Warfare -- 3.Behind Japanese Lines -- 4.Getting Out: the Struggle to Survive -- 5.A Costly yet Convincing Demonstration -- 6.Operation Thursday Takes Shape -- 7.The Men who Became the Chindits -- 8.Training for War in the Wilderness -- 9.The Toughest March -- 10.When Sunday Became Thursday -- 11.The Fly-in Continues -- 12.White City: Establishing the Block -- 13.Aberdeen Garrisoned ... White City Held -- 14.Engaging the Enemy -- 15.Reinforcing Success -- 16.The First Phase Ends -- 17.Attacking Supply Lines -- 18.A Shift of Emphasis -- 19.Moving North to Blackpool Block -- 20.111 Brigade Under Siege -- 21.Isolated and Overwhelmed -- 22.Mokso Sakan--the Rallying Point -- 23.Saving the Wounded and Sick -- 24.Calvert Continues -- 25.Taking Mogaung -- 26.New Objectives -- 27.Point 2171 and Hill 60 -- 28.Coming Back From Hell -- 29.Aftermath --30.Remembering.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2212
- ISBN
- 9780752460789 (hc.)
- 0752460781 (hck.)
- LCCN
- 2011507463
- OCLC
- 751797328
- Author
- Redding, Tony.
- Title
- War in the wilderness : the Chindits in Burma, 1943-1944 / Tony Redding.
- Imprint
- Stroud : Spellmount, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]) and index
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2212