TY - BOOK AU - Edwards, Leslie TI - Kohima the furthest battle: : The story of the japanese invasion of india in 1944 and the British-India thermopylae SN - 9781862274884 U1 - 355.40952 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - The History Press KW - Kohima, Battle of, Kohima, India, 1944. KW - Military campaigns. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma. N1 - PART I: FROM BURMA TO INDIA CHAP'TER 1: 1940: North-cast India; Assam. Naga Land and Kohinia CHAPTER 2: War with Japan; Allied retreat from Biirma;AIlied regrouping and consolidation; ist Arakan Campaign CHAPTER 3: August 1943 Quebec Conference; Creation of 14th Army; Allied build-up to invasion of Burma; Imphal and Dimapur; 2nd Arakan Campaign CHAPTER 4: Japanese build-up to invasion of India; Preliminar)'Allied preparations PART 2: JAPANESE INVASION CHAPTER 5: Japanese advance into Manipur and Assam CHAPTER 6: Kohima starts preparing; Sangshak, Kharasom, Pek and Jessami {PART 3: BATTLE OF KOHIMA - PHASE 1 -THE SIEGE CHAPTER 7: The Siege CHAPTER 8: Relief PART 4 BATTLE OF KOHIMA -PHASE 2 - CONSOLIDATION, STALEMATE, PREPARATION CHAPTER 9: Consolidation,stalemate PART 5: BATTLE OF KOHIMA - PHASE 3 - ONTHE OFFENSIN'E CHAPTER 10: Switching the ohensive CHAPTER11: Recapture ot Kohima ILidge CHAPTER 12 : Recapture of Naga Village. Aradura Spur PART 6 AFTERMATH CHAPTER 13: Japanese withdrawal;AJlied advance cowards Imphal CHAPTER 14: Victory in Burma Epilogue APPENDICES APPENDIX A: Kohima by the end ofjiily 1944 APPENDIX B: 2nd Infantry Division Memorial at Kohima APPENDIX C: Allied Chain of Command APPENDIX D: Allied Order of Battle APPENDIX E: Japanese Chain of Command and Infantry Order of Battle APPENDIX F: Theoretical strength ofAllied and Japanese army units APPENDIX G: 33 Corps weekly strengths and casualty records APPENDIX H: 33 Corps Medical Statistics APPENDIX I: Japanese casualties and captured guns APPENDIX J: Allied and Japanese casualties - alternative assessment APPENDIX K: Organisation, strength and operational movements ofjapanese 58th RegimenT APPENDIX L: Organisation, strength and operational movements ofjapanese 124th Regiment APPENDIX M : Japanese intentions following the capture of Imphal and Kohima APPENDIX N: Chronology - Overview ofjapanese military involvement in South-East Asia. 1941 to 1945 ER -