Mist on the Rice Fields: a Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943-45 and Korean War 1950-51 by Jn Shipster

Mist on the Rice Fields: a Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943-45 and Korean War 1950-51 by Jn Shipster

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 I. 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.

Shipster, John: - John Shipster specializes in World War II History.

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ISBN 13	9780850527421
ISBN 10	0850527422
Title	Mist on the Rice Fields: a Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943-45 and Korean War 1950-51
Author	Jn Shipster
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2000-03-07
Number of pages	224
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