22.0°N 96.0°E Southeast Asia Burma Campaign
Briefing
Fought across some of the worst terrain on earth, the war in Burma ran from Japan's 1942 conquest — the longest retreat in British history — to Slim's Fourteenth Army destroying two Japanese armies at Imphal, Kohima, and the Irrawaddy. It remains the Forgotten War: monsoon, jungle, disease, and a multinational army of British, Indian, African, American, and Chinese troops.
Books Covering This Event (6)
Memoir
The commander of the Fourteenth Army tells how a beaten force was rebuilt to destroy the Japanese in Burma.
The Flashman author's memoir of fighting in Burma as a nineteen-year-old private in the Border Regiment.
A Gordon Highlander survives Singapore, the Death Railway, a torpedoed hell ship, and the Nagasaki blast — and stays silent for sixty years.
Historical Fiction
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their Japanese captors — and their colonel builds it too well.
An American corporal thrives by trading in Changi POW camp, where officers starve and rank means nothing.
