This monumental work covers all aspects of India's contribution to the Allied cause between 1939 and 1945. The narrative is packed with a huge amount of information regarding even the smallest fighting, logistical and medical units and sib-units, and yet it remains eminently readable throughout.

The Reconquest of Burma Volume two, covers the period from June-1944 to August 1945, Its describes the operations of the fourteenth Army conducted during the monsoon of 1944, the crossing of the Irrawaddy, the capture of Meiktila and Mandalay, and the double thrust to Rangoon down the river and the railway axes. A chapter setails the capture of Rangoon by seaborne and airborne operations knows as "Drakula"`, the mopping-up operations conducted against the Japanese escaping to the east of Burma have also been covered the detail.