ABDA-CBI-SEAC. Book thread.

Ah, yes... there it is, just ahead... the turning that leads to the road to madness... and 'tis a slippery slope... but that's no use to us, looking back, as we're already on it... :indexCANAHAIH: :elkgrin: :smash: :rocker: :box2: :curtsey: ragon:

 

I mentioned this earlier in the thread and have finally got a copy

 

Nice one Jason. A review in good time would be useful to me, as I have flirted with said book on numerous occasions. I'm reading this at the moment:

 

Gentleman, and Ladies...

Re the bibliography and the names of books - if the book title commences with a "The"... do we put it as, for example, The Burma War or Burma War, The...?

When you do the searches it quickly becomes apparent that we have a few titles that begin with "The"...

I prefer the latter option, as it gives the searcher a better opportunity of finding something with a specific theme - The Beatles; The Cure; The Doors; The Grateful Dead, etc...

 

Hadn't really thought about it...

An advantage of sticking with the initial 'the' is that it will be found by someone searching for "The Burma War", though the database search seems to ignore the quotes now that I've tried it!

 

Google skips "The" and find the remainder of the required words.
Yahoo looks for the three.
(just tried Louis Allen's Longest for test purposes)

 

Galahad by Col Charles N Hunter dropped through the letter box today - 50p + £2.80 postage from the good ol' USofA - I don't see how they can do this...

I've been watching out for a copy for a while as he's referenced in several other works - I'll review this in the biblio once I've read it...

No dust wrap and it's an ex library book but the condition is quite good; the green cover is a printed drawing of a kukri knife and the 5307th shield - loads of pictures; some quite grim... I'll post a pic of the cover as soon as I get a chance and update it on this post.

 

Do any of you know of any titles that give a decent account on the "Comfort Women" specifically in Burma...?

Something I've yet to acquire for my project and something my dad mentioned in his account I've not noted in any of the other accounts from the 111th... nothing sensational, just being as completest as I can be...

If anyone sees or hears of a copy of Jack Lindo's account up for sale would you be kind enough to let me know as I'd like to transcribe any relevant sections for my project... cheers...

 

I'll keep an eye out for Jack's book mate, but the offer of 'lend lease' is always there for you.

 

Hey Chaps,

Just cos' we have a biblio going shouldn't mean we don't use this goodly thread for our reviews.

 

Allen further states in Burma:


iv style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Burmese girls, and the Indian girls,stayed behind when the Japanese surrendered and simply plied their trade for the Allied troops when they moved into Tenasserim, according to Senda Natsumitsu.Besides Moulmein, there were comfort houses in Meiktila, Mandalay, Rangoon,Toungoo, and Pyinmana. In most of them the proportion of girls was ten Koreans, four Burmese, two Indians and Chinese and Japanese 0.8. How Senda arrives at his fraction for the Japanese is not clear, but Japanese girls were for the use of officers only. The girls were usually around twenty years old, though in the early days one medical officer complained to headquarters that prostitutes who had reached the limits of their usefulness in Japan were being sent abroad as ianfu and he insisted that the troops of the Imperial Army were entitled to the very best.



Allen implies that except for the Korean girls,the rest were professional prostitutes.The Japanese ones did stand by the troops:


When the tide of battle turned against the Japanese, the comfort girls were often trapped in beleaguered garrisons,and although they were told they were not under military command and could leave, the preferred to stick it out, witht he soldiers. In the fighting in Yunnan in September 1944, where the garrison at Lament was finally reduced to eighty men, who decided to commit suicide, the Japanese comfort girls said to their Korean counterparts: "You should escape from here. You owe no duty to Japan, so save your own lives and return to your country. You are orientals as they are, so the Chinese soldiers won't harm you. We are going to stay behind with our soldiers." The Korean girls waved white cloths and went out to surrender. The Japanese girls swallowed the potassium cyanide with which the troops killed themselves, and the Chinese found seven Japanese female corpses among the dead they took the town.

The girls in Myitkyina were luckier. Just before it fell, the garrison commander had rafts built and sent the wounded and the comfort girls to safety down the Irrawaddy.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=107989&start=15

 

Ken, I Found this book which is nearer to what you are after.http://www.warbirdforum.com/comfort.htm

 

Lease/lend didn't work in your favour last time ( ) but with my present situation I would be obliged if it were possible...

Jason... I'll keep an eye out for that one... I missed those entries in LA's book - time to dig back through it...

Picked up "Mountbatten - the official biography" by Philip Ziegler for £1 today...

Philip Ziegler was invited to write this official biography of Mountbatten's life and produced an astonishingly detailed work. He was given full access to private and personal documentation and was assisted by members of the Royal Family, as well as his own. His life, and death, was not without controversy, but he oversaw the transition of India from Empire to Independence; the end of Empire.
Pages 121 to 346 cover the period between 1939 and '46 and the relevant information for this bibliography.
Ziegler was also honoured by being allowed to edit and assemble Mountbatten's personal diaries, which were published in separate volumes covering various points of his life.
786 pages with numerous pictures

 

Hi Sylvia, I've edited the duplicate entry with an alternate item so it's now gone

Ken

 

Ken,

Is your last entry in the biblio re: Medical history of the CBI theatre the same as 'Crisis Fleeting' by James Stone?? I've already added it to the list if so. I have a copy if you want a looksee.

 

Actually I had also placed a review of the book on this thread many moons past.

Here: http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/25378-abda-cbi-seac-book-thread/

It is the last post on the page.

 

Not sure, Steve... Col Hunter notes it as being a "declassified history, unpublished" work and searching for it brings up the references to it, and it's location in manuscript form, so... "Crisis Fleeting" is a compilation edited by Stone and is commonly linked - never had it in "book" form but it's easily available in the digital format and has been for some years - Hunter references the work numerous times in his book - present reading for me.
I could find no web page linking the two titles... I might get a better idea as I work through "Galahad"...

 

Ken,Many thanks for removing the annoying duplicate. Glad to know we have wise men here.
Sylvia

 

Ok mate.

 

Not a problem... I think that's why Adam left it "adjustable" so we can all assist in this work...

I've altered all mine (I think) to have "The" as the opening word of any title where it's used so we get a common pattern throughout the DB...