![]() ![]() ![]() Internetarchivebookdrive Edition 1st Perennial ed. 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 IIĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:05:45.941436 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1152508 City New York Donor 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. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and indexįrom the Publisher: 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. ![]() Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003 ![]()
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