Raymond A. Callahan is professor emeritus of
history, University of Delaware and author of Triumph at
Imphal-Kohima: How the Indian Army Finally Stopped the Japanese
Juggernaut (Kansas).
Daniel Marston is senior research professor and
the director of the Secretary of Defense Strategic Thinkers
Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University and author of The Indian Army and the End of the Raj.
A much-needed study of the Burma campaign in 1945 by the two
foremost historians in the field. Not only do they chart the
transformation of the Indian Army but also they relay the story of
the forgotten African soldiers fighting in Burma. The authors
demonstrate that it was largely due to the contribution of these
troops that the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated by 1945. The
book is extremely engaging and eloquent: an essential text for
anyone studying the campaign. Its accessible prose makes it such a
pleasure to read-it therefore deserves a much wider readership than
just historians." - Alan Jeffreys, author of Approach to Battle:
Training the Indian Army during the Second World War
"There is a stage in every topic when it becomes possible to
produce a study that will be 'the' book everyone interested in the
matter should read. That time has come, and The 1945 Burma Campaign
and the Transformation of the British Indian Army is 'the' book.
Callahan and Marston explain how and why the liberation of Burma in
1945 was the peak of military excellence for Allied combined-arms
campaigns during the Second World War." - Brian P. Farrell,
professor of history, National University of Singapore, and author
of The Defence and Fall of Singapore
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