The siege that shaped Naga destiny

Kohima and Imphal decisively turned the tide against the Imperial Japanese Army in Southeast Asia

HIS MAJESTY’S HEADHUNTERS: The Siege Of Kohima That Shaped World History

Author: Mmhonlumo Kikon

Publisher: Penguin

Price: Rs 599 
Pages: 256

“The whole forest is moving! So many of them have come”, shouted a villager as Japanese soldiers swarmed into the village of Viswema, 20 kilometres south of Kohima, in the first week of April 1944. Lieutenant General Mutaguchi Renya, commander of the Japanese Fifteenth Army in Burma, had launched a four-pronged attack aimed at smashing and rolling up British Indian forces all the way up to Dimapur in the north and Imphal in the south. The troops entering Viswema were from the