4 Ergebnisse.

After landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry Division. Ever cheerful, the Battalion were opposed by an increasingly ruthless enemy determined to deny the invader their homeland.As the campaign developed, 1 Suffolk acquired an enviable reputation for getting the job done with the minimum of fuss. Inevitably casualties mounted up and, of the 850 ...

Between December 1943 and August 1944, Second Suffolk, as part of the 5th (Indian) Division, played a key role opposing the Japanese in Burma and later at the critical battle at Imphal. The odds could not have been higher or the challenges greater. The Japanese had already earned an awesome reputation as a formidable and ruthless enemy who could only be described as fanatical. The rugged jungle terrain, over which the Battalion had to fight, w...

The Crucial Years 194953. The Malayan Emergency was a unique military success against Communist insurgency. Fought over 12 years in most demanding terrain and climate. The Suffolks played a key role at the most critical period. Superb contemporary images and personal accounts of soldiers involved.

The Memoirs and Letters of Richard Laird A Japanese Prisoner of War.