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Spidermen: Nigerian Chindits and Wingate’s Operation Thursday Burma 1943 – 1944: Nigerian Chindits and Wingate's Operation Thursday Burma 1943 - 1944 Kindle Edition

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In 1944 twenty thousand Allied Airborne Special Force troops in five Brigades commanded by Major General Orde Wingate landed behind the Japanese lines in Northern Burma. The Operation was Codenamed Operation Thursday. The Special Force troops were nicknamed ‘Chindits’. Four thousand Nigerian troops fought in the Special Force Brigades as Chindits during Operation Thursday. This book is an account of their operations behind Japanese lines between February and August 1944. The Brigade’s Insignia was the Black African Spider advancing on its prey. Thus, the Brigade called itself the ‘Spider Brigade’; its Battalions, namely the 6th, 7th and 12th Nigeria Regiments, ‘Spider Regiments’, and its troops ‘Spidermen’.

The book is a well-written account of the Spider Brigade’s battles against the 18th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. It should force Chindit Historians to confront the anomalies in Contemporary History’s treatment of Nigerian Chindits. The book is a scholarly and dispassionate excursion into the 14th Army’s Campaigns, putting under the microscope the preconceived assumptions of British and Indian Armies’ Officer Corps about the fighting quality of Nigerian Chindits. Thus, the book is an important and long overdue account of Operation Thursday that will become the standard work on Nigeria’s contributions to Allied Airborne Invasion of Burma.

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October 6, 2018
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John Igbino received PhD from the University of London. He is the author of 'The meanings of Inclusion in Cross-Cultural Contexts'(2012), Ofsted: a case in the mismanagement of the standards of education in England (2014). He has authored numerous scholarly articles. Cover Photograph: The Insignia of the 81st West African Division/Imperial War Museum London --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07J9HL35F
Publisher ‏ : ‎ AuthorHouse UK (October 6, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8461 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
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Bob Dixon

An interesting and revealing read

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Spent 30 years trying to discover what happened to my dad's unit as part of the 2nd Chindit operation in Burma. This book explains some of the problems I have had in that search, and claims that the contribution of a number of West African and Nigerian units has been deliberately 'written out of history'. As a white Briton it is a challenging and, at times uncomfortable read. However, assuming John Igbino's well documented facts are correct then it is extremely revealing and a must read for anyone with an interest in WW2 history and the liberation of Burma from the Japanese.

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