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The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-In
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2003-10-13
- ISBN
- 9780374117405
- Book Title
- Burma Road : the Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Asia / Southeast Asia, Military / World War II
- Item Weight
- 23.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374117403
ISBN-13
9780374117405
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2361210
Product Key Features
Book Title
Burma Road : the Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Southeast Asia, Military / World War II
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-006946
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"In World War II, Japan sealed parts of China. Nothing could get in or out. Disaster loomed. InThe Burma Road-a gripping recounting of those dark days-Donovan Webster tells us the harrowing and heroic story of how China survived." James Bradley, author ofFlags of Our Fathers
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.54/25
Synopsis
The harrowing story of one of the greatest chapters of World War II---the building and defense of the Burma Road The Burma Road tells the extraordinary story of the China-Burma-India theater of operations during World War II. As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at the war's outset--closing all of China's seaports--more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a seven-hundred-mile overland route--which would be called the Burma Road--from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But with the fall of Burma in early 1942, the Burma Road was severed, and it became the task of the newly arrived American General Stilwell to re-open it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma as the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan. In gripping prose, Donovan Webster follows the breathtaking adventures of the American "Hump" pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas to make food-drops in China; tells the true story of the mission that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai; and recounts the grueling jungle operations of Merrill's Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades. Interspersed with vivid portraits of the American General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the exceedingly eccentric British General Orde Wingate, and the mercurial Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, The Burma Road vividly re-creates the sprawling, sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and still largely unknown stories of one of the greatest chapters of World War II.
LC Classification Number
D767.6.W44 2003
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