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	'''''The Springing Tiger''''' is a historical account of the [[Indian National Army]] published in 1959 by Col [[Hugh Toye]]. The book was published in London by [[Cassell Publishers]], and is considered one of the first Sympathetic Western accounts of the army.<ref name=Fay402>{{Harvnb\|Fay\|1993\|p=402}}</ref> Toye worked as an intelligence officer in World War II in Burma, and was tasked with interrogating captured soldiers of the INA by the [[CSDIC(I)]]. The book is provided with a foreword by [[Phillip Mason]], who in 1946 was the Secretary of the War department in India. The book describes in detail the formation of the INA under the auspices of the [[F Kikan]] of Japanese intelligence through the collapse and subsequent revival of the army under Subhas Chandra Bose, its role in the [[Battle of Imphal\|Battles of Imphal]] [[Battle of Kohima\|and Kohima]] and the subsequent collapse in the face of Allied Burmese offensive before ending with the alleged death of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]].		'''''The Springing Tiger''''' is a historical account of the [[Indian National Army]] published in 1959 by Col [[Hugh Toye]]. The book was published in London by [[Cassell Publishers]], and is considered one of the first Sympathetic Western accounts of the army.<ref name=Fay402>{{Harvnb\|Fay\|1993\|p=402}}</ref>

			Toye worked as an intelligence officer in World War II in Burma, and was tasked with interrogating captured soldiers of the INA by the [[CSDIC(I)]]. The book is provided with a foreword by [[Phillip Mason]], who in 1946 was the Secretary of the War department in India.

			The book describes in detail the formation of the INA under the auspices of the [[F Kikan]] of Japanese intelligence through the collapse and subsequent revival of the army under Subhas Chandra Bose, its role in the [[Battle of Imphal\|Battles of Imphal]] [[Battle of Kohima\|and Kohima]] and the subsequent collapse in the face of Allied Burmese offensive before ending with the alleged death of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]].

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==

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{{infobox book | 
| name = The Springing Tiger
| image = File:TheSpringingTiger.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = [[Hugh Toye]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| genre = History ([[Military]])
| publisher = [[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell]]
| release_date = 1959
| media_type = Print
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}

'''''The Springing Tiger''''' is a historical account of the [[Indian National Army]] published in 1959 by Col [[Hugh Toye]]. The book was published in London by [[Cassell Publishers]], and is considered one of the first Sympathetic Western accounts of the army.<ref name=Fay402>{{Harvnb|Fay|1993|p=402}}</ref> Toye worked as an intelligence officer in World War II in Burma, and was tasked with interrogating captured soldiers of the INA by the [[CSDIC(I)]]. The book is provided with a foreword by [[Phillip Mason]], who in 1946 was the Secretary of the War department in India. The book describes in detail the formation of the INA under the auspices of the [[F Kikan]] of Japanese intelligence through the collapse and subsequent revival of the army under Subhas Chandra Bose, its role in the [[Battle of Imphal|Battles of Imphal]] [[Battle of Kohima|and Kohima]] and the subsequent collapse in the face of Allied Burmese offensive before ending with the alleged death of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]].

==Footnotes==
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==References==
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*{{Citation
| surname1 = Fay
| given1 = Peter W.
| year = 1993
| title = The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942–1945
| url =
| publisher = Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
| isbn = 0-472-08342-2
}}
{{refend}}

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