The Men Of The Burma Road
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The Men Of The Burma Road
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Author : Yee Chiang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
The Men Of The Burma Road written by Yee Chiang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Burma Road (China and Burma) categories.
The Burma Road
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Author : Donovan Webster
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2004-09-07
The Burma Road written by Donovan Webster and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-07 with History categories.
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.
Behind The Burma Road
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Author : William Raymond Peers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Behind The Burma Road written by William Raymond Peers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Guerrilla warfare categories.
The Men Of The Burma Road
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
The Men Of The Burma Road written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Burma categories.
A Soldier S Letter About His Adventures On The Burma Road During World War Ii
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Author : Elmer Olson
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-07-27
A Soldier S Letter About His Adventures On The Burma Road During World War Ii written by Elmer Olson and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with History categories.
This book was written basically to demonstrate the procedures that Sgt Peter Trunce used in trying to get refugees safely out of Burma and away from the Japanese during World War II. Some of these refugees were their own worst enemies. They died because of their own foolish mistakes, lack of reason and discipline, and lack of knowledge. It was obvious from the letter he wrote that Sgt Trunce had much compassion for the people he was there to help.
The Burma Campaign
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Author : Frank McLynn
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-31
The Burma Campaign written by Frank McLynn and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-31 with History categories.
A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign – one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two. The Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two. Impenetrable jungle, poor transport infrastructure, seasonal monsoon rains, as well as famine, disease, snakes and crocodiles all bore heavily on the troops. Against this extraordinary backdrop, Frank McLynn constructs the dramatic story of the four larger-than-life commanders directing the Allied effort: Louis Mountbatten, Orde Wingate, Joseph Stilwell and William Slim, and explores the Campaign through their often stormy relationship. The Burma Campaign is a strikingly original account from one of our most celebrated historians. ‘Magnificent...a closely woven, tightly argued and beautifully written account of the extraordinary men and women who were responsible for the higher direction of the war...This book delights, page after page. McLynn held me spellbound’ BBC History Magazine
Last Man Out
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Author : H. Robert Charles
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks
Release Date : 2006
Last Man Out written by H. Robert Charles and has been published by Motorbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Burma-Siam Railway categories.
From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.
The Burma Road
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Author : Donovan Webster
language : en
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Burma Road written by Donovan Webster and has been published by Pan Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Burma categories.
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
The Burma Road
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Author : Douglas Coe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
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The Road Past Mandalay
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Author : John Masters
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-11-03
The Road Past Mandalay written by John Masters and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with History categories.
The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.