Fight Your Way Out: The Siege of Sangshak, India/Burma Border, 1944

by David Allison

In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except for the previously untested 50 Indian Parachute Brigade training in the jungle around Manipur.

After a series of brutal encounter battles, the Paratroopers consolidated on the isolated Naga village of Sangshak high in the Manipur hills. Holding out against an aggressive and determined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139905631X
• ISBN13: 9781399056311
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 192 Pages