far east war

A Weekend to Pack. With the first Far East deployment of a Royal Navy Carrier Group in this century it is interesting to take a look back to When Great Britain still had a significant Naval and military presence spread across the globe. This book touches on an aspect of the Second World War...

This book is part of the Images of War collection from Frontline books. I am not sure that Chindits were Special Forces as such, although they did perform a series of long range penetration raids into Japanese held territory, they were a collection of British, Ghurkha, India, Nigerian and...

In 1938 the 2nd Bn East Surreys, a regular army battalion, were sent to Shanghai to guard the International Compound during the Japan-China War. Brought up to war establishment for this posting the Battalion soon settled in to what was, in effect, a large prison, freedom of movement was not...