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Return via Rangoon: a young Chindit survives the jungle and Japanese captivity / Phillip G. Stibee

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Leo Cooper, 1995Edition: Paperback EditionDescription: xv, 232 pages: illustrations, map; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9748496473 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: Philip Stibbe's moving account of training and fighting beyond the Chindwin in the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines in 1943. Great book about the brave men who fought in the Southeast Asia Burma theatre of WWII. Sobering description of POW life under Japanese rule. He describes the first Chindit expedition, led by Orde Wingate, Bernard Fergusson and Mike Calvert, then his capture; every Chindit agreed to be left behind if wounded. He was beaten up and water-tortured, yet Stibbe only gave his brutal captors false information. After being moved around Burma he was jailed in Rangoon. Reported "Missing Presumed Dead", miraculously he returned in 1945 to the same room at Merton College, Oxford that he had left after Dunkirk.
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Philip Stibbe's moving account of training and fighting beyond the Chindwin in the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines in 1943. Great book about the brave men who fought in the Southeast Asia Burma theatre of WWII. Sobering description of POW life under Japanese rule. He describes the first Chindit expedition, led by Orde Wingate, Bernard Fergusson and Mike Calvert, then his capture; every Chindit agreed to be left behind if wounded. He was beaten up and water-tortured, yet Stibbe only gave his brutal captors false information. After being moved around Burma he was jailed in Rangoon. Reported "Missing Presumed Dead", miraculously he returned in 1945 to the same room at Merton College, Oxford that he had left after Dunkirk.

CHINDIT, RANGOON, TRAINING

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