NOT ORDINARY MEN: The Story of the Battle of Kohima.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xivpp+1-248pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,acknowledgements,3 b/w maps,a preface,31 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece, between pp50/1,pp82/3,pp114/15 and pp146/47 respectively,an envoi, appendices (A-E),a bibliography,and an index; lus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. Why it should be that some events are engraved upon the tablet of our island's history while others are virtually forgotten is not an easy question to answer.Certainly such names as Dunkirk and Arnhem will be recalled for as long as those of Blenheim and Waterloo,albeit for rather different reasons.But Kohima? Ask anyone what happened at Kohima, even someone with a reasonably high standard of education,and you are most unlikely to get a very exact answer.Yet it was this crucial battle, fought against the Japanese,in North Burma in April,May and June,1944 that Earl Mountbatten described as 'probably one of the greatest battles in history. . . in effect the Battle of Burma,naked unparalleled heroism,the British/Indian Thermopylae.' Even allowing for the fact that Mountbatten was at the time Supreme Commander in South-East Asia and was never slow to inflate his own ego,that is high praise indeed.Kohima,sadly,never became the byword for heroism which it might well have done had it been fought a few thousand miles to the west and,as John Colvin shows in this book,certainly deserved to become.Though the story of this epic battle has been told before, it is one that unquestionably merits re-examination, and Colvin's dramatic style,supported by a wealth of hitherto untapped sources,vividly recreates the horror and the drama of this crucial battle which was to prove the turning point of the Burma Campaign. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!