Literary Evening with Mike Tickner: Victory in Burma
Hybrid Event | Tuesday 2nd November
On 14th June 1945 the 14th Army conducted a victory parade in Rangoon having captured the city with barely a shot fired in anger. Meanwhile the final elements of the Imperial Japanese Army were in full retreat from Burma into Malaya and Siam. Starving, dressed in rags and raddled with tropical diseases, this was no longer the Japanese Army which had so resoundingly defeated the Indian and British Army three years earlier. The fall of Singapore and the terrible retreat had been the British Army’s greatest defeat, yet these soldiers had been transformed into a victorious army. As the 14th Army, they were now able to defeat the most brutal of enemies, in the most testing of climates and in the most difficult of terrain.
Join Mike Tickner for this one hour talk in which he will consider why and how each army conducted warfare and why the Forgotten Army was transformed into a devastating fighting force.
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Tickner is a Regular officer who is interested in the Indian Army especially the Burma campaign and the immediate post war period. He has completed operational tours in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.
