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Human Rights Watch1 年
II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...
Foreign Affairs16 天
The Campaign in Burma
These operations are of great strategic importance. Burma is the back door to China, which Japan has tried to shut. Thanks to the courage of American and British pilots, flying from Assam over the ...
BBC2 年
Animated Map: The Burma Campaign
Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese ... the Japanese government finally surrendered on 14 August 1945. The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War ...
The Tribune1 个月
It was in the 1940s that the hill capital of the British Raj directly came to ‘host ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
StrategyPage3 年
Book Review: The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. Pp. xii, 280. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0700630414 Victory on the “Forgotten Front” The ...
Ranchi’s profoundly sad link to WWII’s ‘Forgotten Army’
From 1942 through till 1945, the 14th Army fought its way into Burma, but its exploits were buried under other Allied ...
BBC4 年
VJ Day: The forgotten African soldiers of the Burma Campaign
Ghanaian veteran Private Joseph Hammond, who is now 95 years old, reflects on the Burma Campaign of World War Two. He was one of 100,000 Africans who fought for the British Army against the Japanese.