Soldier Experiences During the War in Burma from 1942 – 1945: Three Autobiographies that Span the Ranks
In the decades since the end of World War Two military historians have published thousands of books on the campaigns, operations, and battles fought during this most global of world wars. The campaign in Northwest Europe garnered the lion’s share of the reporting, the analysis, and the story-telling. It was followed in popularity by, in uncertain order, the campaigns waged across the deserts of North Africa, the island hopping operations in the Pacific Theater, and since the fall of the Soviet Union an increasing number of corrective histories and biographies on the Russian-German war experience. Throughout this war, one obscure but none the less highly important area of operations remained … More after the Jump…