BANZAI HUNTERS: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships that Defeated the Japanese 1944-45

Account of a forgotten campaign inside the ‘forgotten war’ in Burma in which Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel fought an amphibious war against the Japanese and natural hazards alike.

It was a small forgotten war inside a greater forgotten war : the naval struggle along the coasts and up the insect-ridden rivers and swamplands of Burma’s east coast waged by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines against the Japanese occupiers. Peter Haining’s account of the Arakan coastal campaign presents a vivid picture of a campaign in which natural hazards - disease, insects and wild animals - present almost as great a danger as the formidible enemy. Without their contributoion, as General ‘Bill’ Slim, commander of the 14th army recognised - the war in Burma would not have been won.

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Product Code:	10482
Author:	Peter Haining
ISBN:	9 781861 059413
Format:	191pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £16.99
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