Mullins as 2nd Lt in the Queen's Royal Regiment Joe Mullins, who has died aged 103, was awarded an Immediate MC in 1945 while serving with the Queen’s Royal Regiment (QRR) in the Burma Campaign. In ...
The China-Burma-India theatre of the Second World War is largely a forgotten footnote among the numerous English language accounts of the European and Pacific Theatres. Christopher L. Kolakowski's ...
From Burma this week TIME’S Correspondent Jack Belden sent the following report on the campaign that came to an unhappy end with the fall of Mandalay: This is probably my last message. I’m staying ...
The war in Burma has been dismissed by some as a strategic sideshow, in the sense that winning or losing was not decisive in ending the conflict. This began with the 'Germany First' policy agreed ...
How the explorer and historian Alex Bescoby raced to recognise veterans from a largely forgotten chapter of WW2 Tracking down surviving soldiers from the Second World War is an increasingly difficult ...