193. Battleground '44 - The forgotten war in Burma

Battleground

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Joining Saul to discuss his fresh take on the war in Burma is historian Jack Bowsher, who describes the importance of armoured warfare in the Burma theatre of the second world war. Together they also discuss the brilliance of the British commander Bill Slim, and the dramatic events at Meiktila, Imphal and Kohima, in the often called forgotten war. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.6	Today we're discussing the Burma campaign, or the forgotten war, as it is sometimes referred to,
0:53.2	and I'm delighted to welcome to the podcast, Jack Boucher,
0:56.4	the author of Forgotten Armour Tank Warfare in Burma.
1:00.3	Jack, welcome.
1:01.3	Yeah, hi, Saul.
1:01.9	Thank you for having me.
1:02.9	Now, well, come on, as I'm sure is inevitable, Jack,
1:06.3	to the importance of armour in the Burma campaign in 1944.
1:10.1	But I'd like to start by asking you a little bit
1:12.2	about the unique challenges posed by this extraordinary theatre, particularly in terms of terrain
1:18.1	and climate. If you give us a sort of overview of that, it would be very handy. Yeah, of course.
1:22.9	I mean, the first thing that you've got to remember is that Burma is massive. I think when you look at a map of
1:28.4	the world, because it's there next to India, which is much, much, much larger, and China, which is
1:34.5	even larger than that, it's easy to forget that actually, you know, it's 950,000 miles top to bottom.
1:41.0	You know, it's sort of seven, 800 miles, you know, side to side. And it is
1:44.8	completely interspersed by rivers that run completely parallel to the line of advance. And wherever
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