Histories of war
These books are timely reminders of how the lessons from battlefields need a relook.
The Battles of Imphal and Kohima are easily the most underrated battles of the entire Second World War. Overshadowed by titanic struggles like Stalingrad on the Eastern Front and the Allied landings at Normandy, they have received none of the military academic or the big budget movie attention of the other significant turning points in the global conflagration.
Perhaps it was because, by early 1944, the
