Kohima the furthest battle: Leslie Edwards The story of the japanese invasion of india in 1944 and the British-India thermopylae/

PART I: FROM BURMA TO INDIA
CHAP'TER 1: 1940: North-cast India; Assam. Naga Land and Kohinia
CHAPTER 2: War with Japan; Allied retreat from Biirma;AIlied regrouping and
consolidation; ist Arakan Campaign
CHAPTER 3: August 1943 Quebec Conference; Creation of 14th Army;
Allied build-up to invasion of Burma; Imphal and Dimapur;
2nd Arakan Campaign
CHAPTER 4: Japanese build-up to invasion of India; Preliminar)'Allied preparations


PART 2: JAPANESE INVASION
CHAPTER 5: Japanese advance into Manipur and Assam
CHAPTER 6: Kohima starts preparing; Sangshak, Kharasom, Pek and Jessami


{PART 3: BATTLE OF KOHIMA - PHASE 1 -THE SIEGE
CHAPTER 7: The Siege
CHAPTER 8: Relief


PART 4 BATTLE OF KOHIMA -PHASE 2 - CONSOLIDATION, STALEMATE, PREPARATION
CHAPTER 9: Consolidation,stalemate


PART 5: BATTLE OF KOHIMA - PHASE 3 - ONTHE OFFENSIN'E
CHAPTER 10: Switching the ohensive
CHAPTER11: Recapture ot Kohima ILidge
CHAPTER 12 : Recapture of Naga Village. Aradura Spur

PART 6 AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 13: Japanese withdrawal;AJlied advance cowards Imphal
CHAPTER 14: Victory in Burma


Epilogue

APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: Kohima by the end ofjiily 1944
APPENDIX B: 2nd Infantry Division Memorial at Kohima
APPENDIX C: Allied Chain of Command
APPENDIX D: Allied Order of Battle
APPENDIX E: Japanese Chain of Command and Infantry Order of Battle
APPENDIX F: Theoretical strength ofAllied and Japanese army units
APPENDIX G: 33 Corps weekly strengths and casualty records
APPENDIX H: 33 Corps Medical Statistics
APPENDIX I: Japanese casualties and captured guns
APPENDIX J: Allied and Japanese casualties - alternative assessment
APPENDIX K: Organisation, strength and operational movements ofjapanese 58th RegimenT
APPENDIX L: Organisation, strength and operational movements ofjapanese 124th Regiment
APPENDIX M : Japanese intentions following the capture of Imphal and Kohima
APPENDIX N: Chronology - Overview ofjapanese military involvement in South-East Asia. 1941 to 1945