Chindit
The inside story of one of World War Two's most dramatic behind-the-lines operations
$25.97
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2022
Summary
The first personal account of the 1944 operations in Burma to be published, this reprint resurrects the extraordinary story of the Chindits.
Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.
‘Heroic, punishing excursions behind enemy lines, the Chindit expeditions are mythical and controversial in equal measure…Rhodes James takes us right to the he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552178945 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552178942 |
| Author: | Richard Rhodes James |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 189g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 127mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Second World War Voices |
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Richard Rhodes James
Rhichard Rhodes James was born in Mandalay, Burma, in 1921, one of five children of an Indian Army officer. After his education in England, he returned to India in 1942 and joined the 3rd Gurkha Rifles. After the Chindit operations, in which he was mentioned in dispatches, he went on the expedition to repossess Malaya from the Japanese, ending the Second World War in Java.
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