The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 184. köideEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1943 |
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... loss of Rangoon the British had prepared to defend central Burma against a Japanese invasion , and their prospects at first seemed not unhopeful . By this time a strong Chinese force had reached Burma and had taken up positions on the ...
... loss of Rangoon the British had prepared to defend central Burma against a Japanese invasion , and their prospects at first seemed not unhopeful . By this time a strong Chinese force had reached Burma and had taken up positions on the ...
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... loss than the British could stand . From this point it was no longer a question of holding the enemy back or of maintaining a foothold in Libya , but of saving the Eighth Army itself from destruction . The utmost that the British could ...
... loss than the British could stand . From this point it was no longer a question of holding the enemy back or of maintaining a foothold in Libya , but of saving the Eighth Army itself from destruction . The utmost that the British could ...
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... loss of thousands of men and much valuable material , stung it to the quick and filled it with both anger and despondency , much as the loss of Singapore had done four months before . From a military point of view , it was true , the loss ...
... loss of thousands of men and much valuable material , stung it to the quick and filled it with both anger and despondency , much as the loss of Singapore had done four months before . From a military point of view , it was true , the loss ...
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AngloAmerican Cooperation 1 Japanese Progress in Malaya 1 British Progress | 9 |
THE ANGLORUSSIAN TREATY | 27 |
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