Burma '44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East

by James Holland

Book Overview

Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East

In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802160581
• ISBN13: 9780802160584
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"