Böcker av Woodburn Kirby Major General S Woodburn Kirby

This book covers the final victorious campaigns in the South-East Asian theatre from the re-occupation of Rangoon in May 1945 to the Japanese surrender after the dropping of two Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 15th August 1945.

This is primarily the story of 'the forgotten army', commanded by Lt. Gen. Sir William 'Bill' Slim, was the force that wrested Burma from the harsh hands of its Japanese conquerors in a hard-fought campaign from August 1944 to May 1945.

This third volume in the series of five in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War which recount the war against Japan covers the period from late 1943 and the Allied High Command in the theatre under Lord Louis Mountbatten.

This third volume in the series of five in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War which recount the war against Japan covers the period from late 1943 and the Allied High Command in the theatre under Lord Louis Mountbatten.