Recommended Reading
Recommended reading regarding the Royal Berkshire Regiments activities also various aspects of what this site is about.
Slim's Burma Boys |
| By: Colonel John Hill MC Publisher: Spellmount Books Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781862274075 Also Available From: www.thewardrobe.org.uk www.glosters.org.uk www.soldiersofglos.co.uk |
Description:
Those of you who have read China Dragons will enjoy this account on a more personal level. Written before his untimely death in 2002, is based on his original diaries and day to day wartime experiences. It contains personal stories demonstrating the bravery of his soldiers, who fought in the Burma campaign. Read review |
China Dragons: a Rifle Company at War, Burma 1944-45. |
By: Colonel John Hill Publisher: Blandford Press ISBN: 071372275-4 |
Description: Account of 'B' Company, 2nd Royal Berkshires in Burma during 1944/45. Colonel Hill mentions many of his men by name. As this book is now out of print you can obtain a facimile copy of the edition from the www.thewardrobe.org.uk. |
Life In The Army And In Action With 2nd Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment 19th Indian Dagger Div with the XV Army In Burma. |
| By: L/Cpl William Lowe Publisher: Donated To The Webmaster ISBN: N/A |
Description: An unfinished personal account of L/Cpl William Lowe's wartime experience with the C & B Coy's the 2nd Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment. Many of his comrades are mentioned by name and feature heavily on this site. |
The history of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), 1920-1947. |
| By: Gordon Blight Publisher: Staples Press ISBN: B0000CIJOV |
Description: The title speaks for its self. First published in 1953 and is very rare find, hard to track down a copy. You can however obtain a copy from the Rifles regimental museum. www.thewardrobe.org.uk. |
The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945. |
| By: Julian Thompson Publisher: Pan ISBN: 0330480650 |
Description: The campaign in Burma was the longest and biggest ground war fought by the British. It was won in some of the bitterest fighting experienced by the Allies in the Second World War. Allied victories, Kohima-Imphal. Using the Imperial War Museum's archives, this text provides a gripping picture of what it was really like. |
Slim, Master of War. |
| By: Robert Lyman Publisher: Constable and Robinson ISBN: 1841198110 |
Description: Well written and researched. Gives you a good grounding of the man and the genius of the art of war and they respect he had for his men. |
The World Reshaped Volume 2 Fifty Years after the War in Asia |
| By: Richard Cobbold (Editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10: 033365451X ISBN-13: 978-0333654514 |
Description: This volume investigates the economic, military and political aspects of the remarkable developments in this part of the world over the past fifty years and has an informative contribution by the late Colonel John Hill. |
British Infantryman in the Far East 1941-45 |
| (Warrior S) BY: Alan Jeffreys Publisher: Osprey ISBN: 1841764485 |
Description: Valuable information regarding, tactics, training and weapons covers the periods from the Fall of Malaya and Singapore, Reconquest of Burma. Also explores jungle warfare training in India and action in the Burma theatre, covers the Arakan and the battles of Kohima and Imphal. Uniforms, equipment and weapons. Supplies information food rationing, leave and cigarettes. |
Slim's Burma boys
China Dragons
Life in the army
The history of the Royal
Berkshire Regiment
War in Burma
Slim master of war
The World Reshaped
British infantry in
the Far East 1941-45