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Jocks in the Jungle The Black Watch and Cameronians as Chindits

Name: Jocks in the Jungle
Author: Gordon Thorburn

Auteur: Gordon Thorburn

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Gordon Thorburn

Engels
Paperback
9781399085083
24 januari 2022
240 pagina's

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In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training. Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma retreat. Even for these, such training was trial by ordeal. Many more of the Jocks were new, just shipped out from Scotland, but all of them were ordinary men, men from the towns and villages whod taken the Kings shilling in their countrys peril. These were first-class British infantry, but not the super-selected special forces types that we know today. Nevertheless, it was a special-forces job they were supposed to do and that is what they were called, Special Force. The challenge in Madhya Pradesh was to turn themselves into jungle fighters as good as the Japanese. They had a few short months to become Chindits. The two brigades they joined numbered 7,677 officers and men going into the jungle, of whom 531 were killed, captured or missing, and around 1,600 were wounded. By the end, some 3,800 were too sick to fight. Only 1,754 could be classified as 'effective' when they came out and, in truth, half of those were fit for no more than a hospital bed. It was a miracle anybody survived at all. And that was just two of the five brigades that went in. Was this the greatest medical disaster of World War Two? Who caused it? This new book has the answers.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 24 januari 2022
Aantal pagina's: 240
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Gordon Thorburn
Hoofduitgeverij: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

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Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

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EAN: 9781399085083

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Taal: Engels
Periode: 20e eeuw
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Land: Schotland, India

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