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Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944

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Description for Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 paperback. Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 48. Weight in Grams: 458.

Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011

The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history – fought at a major turning point of the Second World War.

Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was amongst ... Read more

A garrison of no more than 1,500 fighting men, desperately short of water and with the wounded compelled to lie in the open, faced a force of 15,000 Japanese. They held the pass and prevented a Japanese victory that would have proved disastrous for the British. Another six weeks of bitter fighting followed as British and Indian reinforcements strove to drive the enemy out of India. When the battle was over, a Japanese army that had invaded India on a mission of imperial conquest had suffered the worst defeat in its history. Thousands of men lay dead on a devastated landscape, while tens of thousands more Japanese starved in a catastrophic retreat eastwards. They called the journey back to Burma the ‘Road of Bones’, as friends and comrades committed suicide or dropped dead from hunger along the jungle paths.

Fergal Keane has reported for the BBC from conflicts on every continent over the past 25 years, and he brings to this work of history not only rigorous scholarship but a raw understanding of the pitiless nature of war. It is a story filled with vivid characters: the millionaire's son who refused a commission and was awarded a VC for his sacrifice in battle, the Roedean debutante who led a guerrilla band in the jungle, and the General who defied the orders of a hated superior in order to save the lives of his men. Based on original research in Japan, Britain and India, ‘Road of Bones’ is a story about extraordinary courage and the folly of imperial dreams.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007132416
SKU
V9780007132416
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About Fergal Keane
Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland. He is one of the BBC's most distinguished correspondents, having worked for the corporation in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Balkans. He has been awarded a BAFTA and has been named reporter of the year on television and radio, winning honours from the Royal Television Society and ... Read more

Reviews for Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944
‘I found myself, on one or two pages towards the close, caught in a choking emotion…the evidence is meticulously gathered and the writing so powerful that it turns a book about a battle into a book about human beings, their existence, their end’ Guardian ‘With this electrifying and ... Read more

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