Captain Mani's War - An Indian journalist's despatches from Manipur (Imphal and Kohima) in 1944

Captain Mani's War - An Indian journalist's despatches from Manipur (Imphal and Kohima) in 1944 With Inderjeet Mani Part of our Burma (Myanmar) in WWII series    • Burma (Myanmar) in WWII   And our War Correspondents and Reporters series    • Reporters, Photographers and Correspondents   And our India at War series    • India in WWII   Also part of our on-going British Army series    • British Army in WWII   And part of our 1945 series    • 1945   Captain Mani’s War is a rare eyewitness account of World War II in India’s Northeast, Burma, Singapore, and Java, told through the dispatches and later writings of Ambassador PRS Mani, an All India Radio broadcaster who became a Captain and Public Relations officer with the Allied 14th Army and subsequently the Southeast Asian Command. It follows the Japanese invasion of India in 1944, the battles of Manipur, the Allied pursuit through Burma, the liberation of Singapore, and the violent aftermath of war in Indonesia. But at its heart, this is a book about men under terrible pressure: Indian soldiers, many of them ordinary recruits and support personnel from every corner of undivided India, fighting a brutal enemy while serving an empire whose rule at home was already beginning to crack. After Pearl Harbor, Japan swept through Malaya, Singapore, and Burma. By March 1942, Rangoon had fallen, the Burma Road was cut, and India appeared vulnerable. The British Indian Army expanded from about 200,000 troops in 1939 to nearly 2.5 million, becoming the largest volunteer army of the war. In March 1944, the Japanese 15th Army crossed the Chindwin and invaded India, aiming to seize Imphal and Kohima, cut the Dimapur–Imphal road, and break Allied power in the East. The battles that followed became Japan’s greatest land defeat. On June 22, Allied columns from Kohima and Imphal linked up at Milestone 109, reopening the road; the Japanese Operation U-Go was officially abandoned on July 3. The campaign then turned into a relentless pursuit through Burma. Indian divisions, tanks, engineers, and Gurkha reconnaissance teams pushed the Japanese back through broken roads, rivers, jungle, and monsoon. Japan surrendered in August 1945; Singapore was formally recaptured in September. But the war experience did not end there. In Indonesia, newly declared independence collided with Allied efforts to restore Dutch authority, and Indian troops found themselves drawn into another Asian people’s struggle against colonial rule. Buy the book: UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978935... India: https://www.juggernaut.in/products/ca... USA: https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Manis-... Dr Prof. (Retd.) Inderjeet Mani is an awardwinning author of two novels, numerous short stories and translations of Indian poetry. His acclaimed thriller Toxic Spirits and novel The Conquest of Kailash reflect his deep engagement with culture, philosophy, and global politics. A scholar of linguistics and AI, he has authored nearly 100 scientific papers and the book Narrative and Generative AI. He has held positions at Georgetown, Yahoo, Cambridge, MIT, and IISc, and now divides his time between Thailand, India, and the US. Other Burma shows on WW2TV Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945 https://youtube.com/live/u6Qgnt6r_9Y Burma 1944: Road to Victory - Panel Discussion https://youtube.com/live/E30v7NR5wlI Social Media links -   / ww2tv     / ww2tv     / ww2tv   WW2TV Merchandise https://ww2tv.creator-spring.com/ WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV Patreon Brigadiers: Tonet Rivera, John Lonsberg, Susan Yu, David Keahey, Jim Walsh and Tom Mullen Become a WW2TV Brigadier and become part of this Hall of Fame   / ww2tv   🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/47793857...