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02943aam a2200517 i 4500 001 9D2990FA969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 008 200513s2020 ksua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2020018384 020 $a 0700630414 020 $a 9780700630417 035 $a (OCoLC)1154966026 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d KKC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ja--- $a a-ii--- $a e-uk--- $a a-ja--- 050 00 $a D767.6 $b .C289 2020 082 00 $a 940.54/2591 $2 23 100 1 $a Callahan, Raymond, $e author. 245 14 $a The 1945 Burma Campaign and the transformation of the British Indian Army / $c Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston. 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 280 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Modern war studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In November 1944, in the aftermath of the crushing defeat he had inflicted on the Japanese at Imphal in India, Lt. Gen. Sir William Slim, commander of Britain's XIV Army, revisited the site on the east bank of the Chindwin River where, as he retreated from Burma in 1942, he had destroyed his remaining tanks, motor vehicles and field artillery pieces which could not be gotten across. "Some of what we owed we had repaid," he wrote of that moment, "now we were going pay back the rest, with interest." This is the story of that payback: the retaking of Burma. Behind this dramatic story is another. The end of the British Raj in India was brought about by many factors, but not the least of them was the "Indianization" of the British Indian Army's officer corps (whereas before, officers had been British and white). This was a sign that the curtain was coming down on the Raj. India achieved its independence in 1947"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a India. $b Army $x History $y World War, 1939-1945. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b Army, XIV $b Army, XIV 610 17 $a Great Britain. $b Army, XIV $b Army, XIV $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00587518 610 17 $a India. $b Army $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00545035 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Burma. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Japan. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z India. 650 7 $a Military campaigns. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710190 651 7 $a Burma. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207835 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 651 7 $a Japan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204082 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Marston, Daniel, $e author. 830 0 $a Modern war studies 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505012924.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D2990FA969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search