Kohima: Britain's Greatest Battle

On April 20th, 2024, in front of a packed audience at the National Army Museum in London (over 1,000 people came through the National Army Museum during the ‘Kohima, 80th Anniversary’ weekend of commemorations) Dr Robert Lyman reprised the 2011 debate in which he argued that the twin battles of Kohima and Imphal in 1944 were Britain’s Greatest Battle.

As Rob tells us:

"It is clear to me that the great twin battle of Imphal & Kohima, which raged from March through to late July 1944, was one of four great turning-point battles in the Second World War, when the tide of war changed irreversibly and dramatically against those who initially held the upper hand."