THE RECONQUEST OF BURMA June 1944-June 1945: Volume 2 Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War 1939-45 Campaigns in the Eastern Theatre

The Reconquest of Burma Volume two, covers the period from June-1944 to August 1945, Its describes the operations of the fourteenth Army conducted during the monsoon of 1944, the crossing of the Irrawaddy, the capture of Meiktila and Mandalay, and the double thrust to Rangoon down the river and the railway axes. A chapter setails the capture of Rangoon by seaborne and airborne operations knows as “Drakula”`, the mopping-up operations conducted against the Japanese escaping to the east of Burma have also been covered the detail.