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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=Frank McLynn
|title=The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=I'm no military historian; I'm not really interested in war. In the Second World War, if push came to shove, I would probably have claimed pacificism. But when this paperback version of the recently published hardback came up, by prolific and highly-esteemed historian Frank McLynn, I just had to read it. The subject is very special in our family, because “Grandad was there”. Grandad fought over the tennis court at Kohima, and he has carried the trauma in his head to this day. Frank McLynn describes that particular battle as “... a scene from Hieronymus Bosch out of Passchendaele”. I knew I had to steel myself to read this book, and was very pleased that the author wrote sensitively about the reality of close combat for lily livers like mine.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551780</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Nathaniel Philbrick