Faced with an order that threatened the lives of sick men, their commander led them in a quintessential Australian response.
Thousands of British colonial troops who died in the Second World War are to be commemorated properly for the first time ...
In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...
USA, Bangladesh and many others have shown that the declaration of independence is a day decided not by those leaving the ...
The 'Death Railway' between Thailand and Burma claimed 1.25 lakh lives during World War II, as Japan forced 2,40,000 ...
Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75 ...
By Philippa Tracy Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s book won the Booker Prize in 2014 and was this summer screened as five ...
On 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose declared the Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind), uniting thousands under the ...
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Agonising hell. These are the only two words that can describe the horror inflicted on Indian soldiers, leading to thousands of painful deaths, during World War II by the Japanese army when it was ...