William slim defeat into victory5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The Japanese could be defeated by a side who trained better and planned better, a side that was determined not to be forced into retreat again. ![]() The central theme of this book is how the Commonwealth soldiers, with the help of the Americans airmen, eventually re-grouped, trained and through small victories scored in patrols, turned their beliefs around and came to recognise that the Japanese were not invincible. 51, 238), it was no wonder that many felt demoralised and were conditioned to think that there was no way to stop the Japanese. On top of that, some people could be fighting for either side (especially the Indians who served in the Indian National Army) and with a foe that exhibited systematic cruelty and brutality in any theatre (pg. Add to this the difficulty of sewing together combatants from different nationalities: British, Indian, Burmese, Nepalese (Gurkhas), American (airmen) and Chinese, the challenge of stopping the Japanese advance into India was formidable. 178) and even uniform was not enough at first (pg. ![]() Resources were scarce, understandable given the secondary status this theatre was accorded (pg. While this theatre did not receive as much attention as the Malayan Campaign, the fighting was not less brutal and conditions possibly harder. This book is about the Burma/India Theatre in the Second World War where the British arguably scored their first victory against the Japanese. ![]()
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