Title: Burma war diary, Burma Senki
Photographer(s):Uryu Tadao
Writer(s): Shigeo Hayashida, Takashi Hirakushi
Designer(s): Yuichiro Sugiyama
Publisher(s): Kyoiyosha, Tokyo, Japan
Year: 1945
Print run:
Language(s): Japanese
Pages: 206
Size: 15,5 x 21,5 cm
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: 1st 1944
Print: Nippon Printing,Tokyo, Japan
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Burma, 1945
ISBN:
The Burma Campaign took place between December 1941 and September 1945, although the rumbling threat to peaceful existence in Burma was very much apparent in pre-1939 years. This diary of events covers from 1941 to 45 but campaign veterans will know that mopping up operations continued for some time after the official surrender of the Japanese.
The war in the Far East started in December 1941, simultaneously with the bombing of Pearl Harbour and consequently the Japanese army advanced into Burma, involving the defending British and Indian troops in a long and demoralizing fighting retreat through thick jungle terrain over a distance equivalent to that from Istanbul to London. Rangoon fell on 8 March 1942 and by mid-June the Japanese advance had reached the hills on the North East frontier of India.
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