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Author: Leslie AndersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Now the Hell Will Start
Author: Brendan I. KoernerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, this work tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding playboy who winds up in the Indo-Burmese jungle--not for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the U.S. Army during World War II.
The Ledo Road. General Joseph W. Stilwell's Highway to China. [With Plates.].
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Author: Leslie AndersThe Burma Road
Author: Donovan WebsterPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060746384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
The Ledo Road
Author: Leslie AndersPublisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Detailed account of the 1942 to 1945 construction of a tortuous military supply line from India through North Burma in China.
The Ledo Road
Author: Leslie AndersLedo Road Diary
Author: Stephen CohenPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532081510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
There needed to be an overland route of supply from India to China in WWll. Someone had to build it. The job fell to General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and he brought 15,000 black men from America to Ledo, Assam in India to do it. They fought disease, leeches, the monsoon and the Japanese to get it done. Under the command of Lewis Pick they turned jungle into road. This is the story of one Jefferson Goode , a jazz trumpet player, who writes the diary. And it is of his friend and community activist, Joey Carver. They are two boys from Philadelphia, who find themselves as roadbuilders, who fight the elements, the enemy and prejudice and segregation. Through the words and thoughts of Jefferson, this adventure unfolds.
Rails of War
Author: Steven James HantzisPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612349374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time, James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers labored at a thankless task under oppressive conditions. Nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without the men of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied forces would have been defeated in the China-Burma-India conflict in World War II. Steven James Hantzis's father served alongside other GI railroaders in overcoming danger, disease, fire, and monsoons to move the weight of war in the China-Burma-India theater. Torn from their predictable working-class lives, the men of the 721st journeyed fifteen thousand miles to Bengal, India, to do the impossible: build, maintain, and manage seven hundred miles of track through the most inhospitable environment imaginable. From the harrowing adventures of the Flying Tigers and Merrill's Marauders to detailed descriptions of grueling jungle operations and the Siege of Myitkyina, this is the remarkable story of the extraordinary men of the 721st, who moved an entire army to win the war.
Burma Road 1943–44
Author: Jon DiamondPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472811275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Shadow States
Author: Bérénice Guyot-RéchardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107176794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people's allegiance.
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