Chiselbury publishing aug 2026 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the spring of 1944, with British fortunes in the East at their lowest ebb, Japanese forces crossed the border into India. The invasion had to be stopped, whatever the cost. Among those sent to meet it were the men of draft RAKXK. Having travelled halfway around the world, they found themselves defending an obscure corner of the front against an enemy they had never seen, in a place none of them had heard of. There they endured fear, exhaustion, love, loss and the sudden, arbitrary violence of war. They were ordinary men brought together by extraordinary circumstances. Men who did not hate the enemy because they did not know him, but who knew they must kill quickly or be killed themselves. Based on James Leasor's own wartime service in Burma with the 1st Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment, NTR: Nothing to Report is a moving, unsentimental and darkly ironic novel about the men whose courage and sacrifice could be reduced to three words in a military communiqué. NTR. Nothing to report. 'Superbly authentic atmosphere, taut narration. Mr Leasor would have delighted Kipling.' The Observer 'The most clinically accurate description of India and Burma about the time of the Kohima breakthrough.' Daily Telegraph 'An on-the-spot sureness about how frightened men behave that is both refreshing and effective.' The Spectator.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many histories of the Burma Campaign climax with the incredible battles of Imphal and Kohima in 1944. The reconquest of Burma that followed in 1945 is often, taken for granted: 'it was just mopping up'. It reality it was the culmination of the journey that the British and Indian armies had gone through since December 1941. This was achieved without the lavish scale of materiel afforded in other theatres, in a location that posed varied and extreme geographical challenges. This campaign, especially around the Japanese supply hub at the town of Meiktila, should be the stuff of legend in our collective memory of the Second World War. Had it been carried out by Monty, Patton, Rommel, or Zhukov, it would be as well-known as the battles of France, Alamein, the Bulge, Kursk, or Overlord. Yet it is the most incredible battle that you've never heard of. It was the culmination of all-arms manoeuvre warfare in the Second World War: tanks, motorised infantry, self-propelled artillery and air support charging across the dusty dry belt of central Burma, striking the Japanese Burma Area Army by surprise in unexpected places. Outnumbered and surrounded, 17th Indian Infantry Division and 255th Indian Tank Brigade annihilated their enemy in the battle that really finished the Japanese in Southeast Asia.This is Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On 1 August 1944, the Polish Home Army launched the Warsaw Uprising, the largest act of armed resistance by any European underground movement during the Second World War. For sixty-three days, soldiers and civilians fought a desperate battle to liberate their capital before the advancing Soviet Army arrived. Instead, the Red Army halted outside the city, allowing German forces to crush the uprising with overwhelming force.The result was one of the greatest tragedies of the war. Up to 170,000 civilians were killed, survivors were driven from their homes, and Warsaw itself was systematically destroyed in an attempt to erase both its people and its history.Rather than recounting these events through the eyes of later historians, Razing Warsaw allows those who lived through them to speak for themselves. Drawn from the remarkable archives of the KARTA Foundation, this unique collection presents commanders' orders, official reports, private letters, diary entries and eyewitness testimonies in chronological sequence, taking the reader from the difficult decision to launch the uprising through the fighting, suffering and ultimate destruction of one of Europe's great cities.Appearing in English for the first time in this outstanding translation by Marek Sobieralski, these powerful voices reveal the courage, fear, hope and despair of ordinary men and women caught in extraordinary circumstances. Together they create an unforgettable portrait of a city fighting for its life, and a vital historical record of one of the defining yet too often overlooked episodes of the Second World War.Essential reading for anyone interested in the Second World War, resistance movements, urban warfare and the human cost of conflict, Razing Warsaw is both a compelling historical document and a lasting memorial to the people of Warsaw.…