The Siege of Kohima (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798279191840)

In the spring of 1944, on a narrow ridge in the hills of northeast India, the war came down to yards.

Cut off, outnumbered, and slowly starving, British, Indian, Gurkha, and Naga troops held Kohima against a determined Japanese assault. The fighting was so close that a single tennis court became the center of the battle, and endurance-not firepower-decided who would remain standing.

The Siege of Kohima is a powerful, human-scale novel of one of the Second World War's most extraordinary battles. Told through the eyes of those who endured it, the story strips away strategy and spectacle to reveal the lived reality of siege warfare: hunger, thirst, exhaustion, fear-and the quiet courage required to hold when retreat is no longer possible.

Drawing on historical events and first-hand accounts, George Hardcastle brings Kohima to life with respect, accuracy, and emotional restraint. This is not a story of easy heroism, but of ordinary men forced to endure extraordinary circumstances, bound together by duty and survival.

A novel of endurance rather than conquest,
of proximity rather than distance,
The Siege of Kohima remembers a battle where the cost was measured not in ground gained, but in lives held long enough to matter.