Meiktila 1945 The Battle to Liberate Burma 1st Edition by Edward Young, Howard Gerrard ISBN 978-1841766980 1841766984

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ISBN 10:    1841766984

ISBN 13: 978-1841766980

Author: Edward M. Young, Howard Gerrard 

Osprey’s examination of the Meiktila campaign of WOrld War II (1939-1945). In the spring of 1944, Japanese 15th Army was shattered at Imphal and Kohima, allowing General William Slim, commander of 14th Army, to liberate Burma overland from India – a task considered impossible by the British chiefs of staff. Overcoming immense logistical problems, Slim coordinated a precisely timed attack along a 200-mile front, the longest opposed river crossing of the entire war, and an armored dash behind enemy lines that seized Meiktila, cutting Japanese supply lines. Mandalay fell and at the end of March 1945, with the battle lost, the Japanese withdrew south. Slim gave them no chance; Allied troops raced south and captured Rangoon. The Japanese army in Burma was finished.

Table of contents: 

1. ORIGINS OF THE CAMPAIGN

2. CHRONOLOGY

3. OPPOSING COMMANDERS

• Japanese commanders

• British commanders

4. OPPOSING PLANS

• The Japanese plan

• The British plan

5. OPPOSING FORCES

• Japanese forces

• British forces

6. Orders of battle

7. THE MEIKTILA CAMPAIGN

• The advance to the Irrawaddy. The attack on Meiktila

• The defense of Meiktila

8. AFTERMATH

9. THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY

10. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

11. INDEX

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