Illustrated with more than 30 maps plans and photos. Written in August 1944 when the Japanese Imperial armies had tasted their first bitter defeats in Burma; the staff of GHQ India were determined to record all of the lessons learned and ensure that the troops in the field would profit from the knowledge. A brilliant exposition of the Japanese methods of land warfare in the later stages of the Second World War as can be found. Although titled as a second edition, this World War Two briefing book is in fact almost completely different from the first Edition.