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| Author | : Donovan Webster |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2004-09-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0060746386 |
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As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route -- the Burma Road -- from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan, American general Joseph Stilwell reopened it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma. From the breathtaking adventures of the American "Hump" pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas to make food-drops in China to the true story of the mission that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai, to the grueling jungle operations of Merrill's Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades, 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.
| Author | : William Raymond Peers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Christopher Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781432798376 |
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At the young age of twenty-seven, a newly ordained Franciscan priest, Father Christopher Sullivan is sent to China to teach and work in rural China to help establish missions. He describes unbelievable tales of his sacred journey and life as a missionary and transformation as a rural healer. During the Japanese invasion of China from 1940 to 1941, Father Christopher transported supplies from Rangoon to Kunming. He drove and sold trucks through the narrow, winding and mountainous highway of the Burma Road to deliver medications and supplies from the Red Cross to the missions and people in rural China. He was endearingly referred to as the "Padre of the Burma Road." After escaping death by inches on several occasions, Father Christopher Sullivan left his assignment as a Franciscan priest in China during 1941, and sought refuge in the Philippines. He was captured by the Japanese in Bataan in 1942, while working for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and walked the brutal "Bataan Death March." After his harrowing three years in the Japanese prison camps, he met and married Anicia, a young beautiful Filipino woman.
| Author | : Pei-ying Tán |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1945 |
| Genre | : Burma Road |
| ISBN | : |
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Record of the construction of a supply road through the mountains and jungles of Burma in World War II.
| Author | : Frank McLynn |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2011-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300178360 |
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This history reveals the failures and fortunes of leadership during the WWII campaign into Japanese-occupied Burma: “a thoroughly satisfying experience” (Kirkus). Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn tells the story of four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War II. This vivid account ranges from Britain’s defeat in 1942 through the crucial battles of Imphal and Kohima—known as "the Stalingrad of the East"—and on to ultimate victory in 1945. Frank McLynn narrative focuses on the interactions and antagonisms of its principal players: William Slim, the brilliant general; Orde Wingate, the idiosyncratic commander of a British force of irregulars; Louis Mountbatten, one of Churchill's favorites, overpromoted to the position of Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia; and Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, a hard-line—and openly anlgophobic—U.S. general. With lively portraits of each of these men, McLynn shows how the plans and strategies of generals and politicians were translated into a hideous reality for soldiers on the ground.
| Author | : Frank Rowsome, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 1979-09-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0452267625 |
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"In the fall of 1925, young Allan Odell conceived the idea of using consecutive signs along the roadside. . . . In 1963 the last signs were taken down, ending the most famous outdoor advertising venture ever.”—1977 Minnesota Almanac The whole story is in this book, plus all the jingles used. The signs are gone now, except for one set on permanent display at The Smithsonian. You can have them all, always, in your own library with this book. “Rowsome’s volume indexes each of the 600 jingles . . . and as you down the list, preferably reading aloud, it might evoke visions of 1940 Chevies, roadside diners, signs that said EATS. . . . Why were the Burma-Shave jingles so universally loved? Because they were light-hearted and humorous in hard times and war times.”—Bov Swift, Knight News Service
| Author | : Donovan Webster |
| Publisher | : MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2014-01-30 |
| Genre | : Burma |
| ISBN | : 9781447264873 |
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In the tradition of Band of Brothers and Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad, Donovan Webster's The Burma Road vividly recreates one of the astonishing and important events of the Second World War - and the basis for the film The Bridge over the River Kwai. With gripping prose, Webster follows the breathtaking adventures of the Allied 'Hump' pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas delivering food and supplies to the 200,000 Chinese labourers charged with creating an overland link with the outside world. For the first time, we learn of the war in Burma from the perspective of the of the soldiers who fought and died there - the bravery, hardships and fears that motivated them to risk everything to avoid a full Japanese occupancy of China. Touching, moving and riveting, Webster's account of this gruelling and arduous campaign is a brilliant and important history, as well as an epic adventure story. 'A compelling narrative . . . The opposing armies pursue one another through tiger-infested jungles, plagued by leeches as they slog miserably from firefight to firefight. This is great material and Webster handles it well' Los Angeles Times
| Author | : Nicol Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1942 |
| Genre | : Burma |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Robert Sherman La Forte |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780842024280 |
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Generosity amid the greatest cruelty, Building the Death Railway gives the American perspective on events that shocked the world.
| Author | : Jon Diamond |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2016-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472811275 |
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Myitkyina was a vital objective in the Allied re-conquest of Burma in 1943–44. Following the disastrous retreat from Burma in April 1942, China had become isolated from re-supply except for the dangerous air route for US transports over the Himalaya Mountains. The Burma Road, which ran from Lashio (south of Myitkyina) through the mountains to Kunming was closed as a supply route from Rangoon after the Japanese conquest. Without military assistance, China would be forced to surrender and Imperial Japanese Army forces could be diverted to other Pacific war zones. This is the history of the ambitious joint Allied assault led by American Lt. Gen. Joseph W Stilwell and featuring British, American and Chinese forces as they clashed with three skilled regiments of the Japanese 18th Division. Packed with first-hand accounts, specially commissioned artwork, maps and illustrations and dozens of rare photographs this book reveals the incredible Allied attack on Myitkyina.
