Ian Allen UK 1st edition 1979. Hard cover dust wrapper 144pp b&w photos. Price clipped dw. Very good. Opposing the Japanese was the "Forgotten Army", the 14th and bearing the brunt of the attack was XV Indian Corps, a polyethnic mixture of Britons, Gurkhas and Indians. In 20 days bloody fighting in the Arakan, the Battle of the Box, as the victory became know, XV Corps inflicted on the Japanese their first major defeat. This covers that Battle, as well as the campaigns that led up to and succeeded it.