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Author Duckett, Richard, author

Title The Special Operations Executive in Burma : jungle warfare and intelligence gathering in World War II / Richard Duckett
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Note on Translation and Transliteration List of Abbreviations List of Maps, Tables, Pictures and Paintings Introduction and Literature Review Prologue: Burma, its Geography, and its People Chapter One: The Oriental Mission, October 1940 -- December 1941 Chapter Two: The Oriental Mission and the First Burma Campaign, December 1941- June 1942 Chapter Three: Reorganisation and Early Operations, August 1942 to August 1943 Chapter Four: Getting Behind the Lines: The India Mission in Burma, September 1943 -- December 1944 Chapter Five: Operation Character, November 1944 -- September 1945 Chapter Six: The Billet Operations: Nation, Manual and Grain, November 1944 -- September 1945 Epilogue: A Legacy? Force 136 and Post-War Burma, 1945 -- 1950 Conclusions Sources and Bibliography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index
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Subject Great Britain. Special Operations Executive -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Special Operations Executive fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Military campaigns
Burma
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786722720
1786722720