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The Reconquest of Burma Volume I describes the plans of the War and the conduct of operations leading to the Reconquest of Burma in 1945. The Indian troops were called upon, first, to protect the north-eastern frontiers of India by blocking the progress of the Japanese forces intro India and then to puch them out of India and Burma in cooperation with other Allied forces. The Volume also covers the planning aspect of the Reconquest of Burma, as also the bitter fighting which took place around Imphal and Kohima. It also describe the two Wingate expeditions conducted behind the Japanese lines, and carries the story of the War in Burma right up to June-1944.