HardThrasher
Published Aug 14, 2024In January 1942 the Japanese Army poured over the border with Burma, and pushed back the Indian and British Armies to the border with Burma. Today we look at how that disaster came about, why and the first phase of the campaign
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Please consider donations of any size to the Burma Star Memorial Fund who aim to ensure remembrance of those who fought with, in and against 14th Army 1941 – 1945 – https://burmastarmemorial.org/As usual this is a non exhaustive list, but hopefully gives you a feel for where I’ve pulled information from; I’ve used Wikipedia articles to give you a feel for what happened when, but there is no substitute for actually sitting and reading some of the source materials, so I’d recommend the Offline section for those seriously interested in the subjects covered.
Online
Slim: Britains Greatest General – Rob Lyman’s talk on Bill Slim
https://www.royalhampshireregiment.or… – Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Emergency
Japanese war crimes death toll– Rough estimates
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD… – Non-China killings
Slim Inter War – https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/william…
Gurkha Regiment history of Slim – Slim Sahib: Britain’s Greatest Ever G…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes… – Wiki on the invasion of Burma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British… – History of Britain in Burma
Interwar US and Japanese Defence Expenditure, 2003, Willaim O’NeilOffline
Burma ’44 – James Holland
Courage and Other Broadcasts – Sir William Slim, edited by Dr. Robert Lyman
Defeat into Victory – Field Marshal Viscount Slim
Desperate Journey – Francis Clifford
Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma – Jack Bowsher
Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 – Fergal Keane
Slim – Roland Lewin
Slim, Master of War – Dr. Robert Lyman
The Burma Campaign – Frank McLynn
A War of Empires – Japan, India & Britain 1941-1945 – Dr. Robert Lyman
Unofficial History – Field Marshal Sir William Slim – John DouglasWikipedia Articles on Key figures
General Wavell – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archiba…
Brigadier Jackie Smyth – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Joh…
Brigadier Hutton – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_…
Richard O’Connor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard…
Subhas Chandra Bose – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_…
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