Sepoys Against the Rising Sun: The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941-45

by Kaushik Roy

During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army. The Indian Army comprised British-led Indian units, British officered units of the Indian princely states and the British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004222200
• ISBN13: 9789004222205
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"