By Martin Brayley, Mike Chappell
The lightning eastern offensives within the a ways East in 1941/42 inflicted a sequence of pricy defeats at the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th military at the India-Burma border slowly equipped up its power and its tactical services; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that devices provided from the air may function deep at the back of enemy traces. In 1944 basic Slim's troops decisively smashed Japan's final offensive at Imphal and Kohima; and over the following yr they drove the enemy relentlessly again via Burma, decreasing them to ravenous fugitives via the ultimate victory in August 1945. This concise precis of Britain's a ways East campaigns is illustrated with many infrequent photos, and 8 exact color plates.
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The frostbite in my feet is growing ever larger and more infected with abscess every day . . And there are the Bolsheviks! . 124 Nevertheless it must be stressed that the GD Division went on fighting till the bitter end, in spite of repeated complaints of this kind. It was only in April 1945 that the division finally broke down. Coming under a heavy Russian artillery barrage, the Sixth Grenadier Company climbed out of its trenches and began walking to the rear. 'My attempts to keep the company together with threats failed*, later wrote the battalion commander.
Thus, for example, looting of boots in France may have been considered to be 'theft', whereas in Russia it would not be thought of as an offence at all; rape in Fiance would be defined as a 'moral offence', whereas in Russia, if considered at all, it might appear as a racial offence, health hazard or even as 'collaboration with partisans'. D. following the Polish campaign. The number of offences increased from seventeen in September 1939 to sixty-three in the November. The most common were absence-without-leave, theft, violations of military regulations and traffic offences, and a large number of the cases had been caused by drunkenness.
It should therefore be pointed out that only the sum of the offences can be considered as a relatively reliable figure. Nevertheless, some conclusions can be drawn from this table. D. (23-3). This can probably be explained by the fact that the GD was often under a much greater strain at the front and that the combat discipline required from the troops was also probably somewhat stricter. We can also note that theft was the most common offence in the GD too, and that notwithstanding the missing data, we do possess records of seven executions.