Mist over the Rice Fields: A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943-45 and Korean War 1950-51 - Hardcover

Shipster, John

 
9780850527421: Mist over the Rice Fields: A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943-45 and Korean War 1950-51

Synopsis

The author served in two hard-fought campaigns in Asia. From 1943 to 1945 he was an officer in the British-led Indian Army. Shipster served with the 7/2nd Punjab Regiment in the Burma theater of World War II. The Punjabis fought in the fierce close-quarters actions at Arakan and Kohima, and the final advance to Mandalay and Rangoon.

Soldiering had undergone many changes in the five short years before the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. India was now independent and the last British officers and advisors were gone. Shipster had become a company commander in the Middlesex Regiment, a British army unit with a reputation as skilled machine-gunners. The Middlesex were sent from Hong Kong to Korea on short notice to aid U.S. and South Korean forces. The steaming jungles of Shipster's past experience were now replaced by two years of fighting, often in bitter cold, over a series of bleak hills.

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John Shipster specializes in World War II History.

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9780850528749: MIST ON THE RICE-FIELDS: A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943 - 1045 and Korean War 1950-51

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ISBN 10:  0850528747 ISBN 13:  9780850528749
Publisher: Leo Cooper, 2008
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