India World War

Rediscover the Revolutionary War as a global fight for freedom What does Bunker Hill have in common with a jungle in Central America, a fort in India, and the towering Rock of Gibraltar? The answer—that they were all battlefields in the Revolutionary War—might astonish you. Blending modern...

The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II!

Long before Australia started to be considered one of the best places in the world to live, it was thought to be completely unlivable. In the 15th century, the European race to claim land began. Despite the fact that Australia was a large landmass, no nation believed it was worth colonizing. The land was claimed by the Netherlands. However, little exploration happened there. Many countries actually believed it to be uninhabitable. However, the Aboriginal populations had already been thriving on the land for millennia.

A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Riveting.” —The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army...

In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to defeat a much larger and sophisticated contingent of some of the finest infantry in the Japanese army on their march toward India.

In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.

Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma. 

From the author of the Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley, The Midnight Rose spans four generations and sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a girl, Anahita Chavan, from 1911 to the...

In book 10 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, Over the Hump/China, Burma, India, we will visit with the veterans of most overlooked theater of World War II as they prepare to fly over and march through the most inhospitable terrain on the planet, from the Himalaya Mountains to the jungles and mountains of Burma, battling elite Japanese forces, sickness, and tropical disease.

FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, A LUSH, SWEEPING LOVE STORY ABOUT A HINDU PERFUMER AND A MUSLIM CALLIGRAPHER, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF PARTITION "Narrator Deepti Gupta captures the deep emotional connection between the two young people, making listeners feel hopeful that, in some way...

Against War: Three Poems brings three landmark poems by one of India's foremost Hindi poets, Dr. Rishabha Deo Sharma, into English for the first time. Written between 2025 and 2026 — as Ukraine burned, Gaza was buried in rubble, and Yemen's mountains shook with bombs — these poems refuse to look away. They name the places, the children, the mothers, the white dove with broken wings. They call war what it is: a hungry demon chanting for more. The first poem, Grant War!, builds like a ritual incantation across four devastating sections before delivering a single, shattering pivot: not war...

Bloomsbury presents Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin by Scott McGaugh, read by Geoff Sugiyama. The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book...

"The Sikh Chronicles" is the Official Journal of the WW1 Sikh Memorial Fund which has created the UK' first national monument to Sikh service. In this journal you will find authoritative articles by experts in their fields covering every aspect of Sikh service during the war - from the theatres they fought in to the awards they won, where the Sikh martial spirit comes from to its significance today. A unique publication, "The Sikh Chronicle" is the only popular, accessible one-volume summary of Sikh service in the Great War.

India's armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people's hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military dimension. In India's Wars, serving Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam seeks to rectify that oversight by giving India's military exploits their rightful place in history.

A hidden army. A secret alliance. A war that changed Asia. In the West, the Second World War is often remembered through Normandy, Stalingrad, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima and the road to Berlin. But in China, another vast war had already been raging for years — a war of occupation, guerrilla resistance, political betrayal and clandestine operations. The Dragon’s Shadow Army tells the forgotten story of the New Fourth Army, the Communist-led guerrilla force that fought behind Japanese lines while China’s Nationalists and Communists held together an uneasy anti-Japanese alliance. It was a ...

This multi-part study covers a century of Asian history, tracking the emergence of national sovereignties as they break free of colonial subjugation. The focus is on China, India, Korea, and Vietnam as they fought against and defeated their diverse overlords: the British, French, Japanese, and American. In this world-transforming process the creative-destructive roles of Russia and Germany are taken into account, especially their connections to Japan's rivalry and collaboration with the White / Western empires, down to the definitive defeat of the Japanese by the American Empire in World ...

This multi-part study covers a century of Asian history, tracking the emergence of national sovereignties as they break free of colonial subjugation. The focus is on China, India, Korea, and Vietnam as they fought against and defeated their diverse overlords: the British, French, Japanese, and American. In this world-transforming process the creative-destructive roles of Russia and Germany are taken into account, especially their connections to Japan's rivalry and collaboration with the White / Western empires, down to the definitive defeat of the Japanese by the American Empire in World ...

This multi-part study covers a century of Asian history, tracking the emergence of national sovereignties as they break free of colonial subjugation. The focus is on China, India, Korea, and Vietnam as they fought against and defeated their diverse overlords: the British, French, Japanese, and American. In this world-transforming process the creative-destructive roles of Russia and Germany are taken into account, especially their connections to Japan's rivalry and collaboration with the White / Western empires, down to the definitive defeat of the Japanese by the American Empire in World ...

An enthralling new study of the brutal British retreat from Burma, the beginning of World War II in the Far East. Using eyewitness accounts and based on meticulous research, World War II historian Jack Bowsher examines the pivotal Burma campaign of 1942. In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl...

This book is not intended as an accurate daily account of the war. It is intended as an accurate transcript of the comments N.D.Varadachariar (Kasi) made in his diaries during the course of the war, based on newspaper and radio reports. Where possible, an attempt has been made to provide context (in italics) to references to people, places and events made in the diary. The diaries are replete with insight and commentary that provide a unique window into this defining period of civilisation, made all the more interesting by spellings, turns of phrase, and indeed, opinions, that one might ...