Description: THE BURMA ROAD: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II by Donovan Webster. VERY GOOD+++ First Edition stated, full number line hardcover, 2003. 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 700-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. The author 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, this narrative vividly re-creates the still largely unknown story of one of the greatest chapters of WWII -- the building and defense of the Burma Road. VERY GOOD+++ First Edition stated, full number line hardcover, gently read with pages and edges clean and unmarked with the exception of very light soiling on forward edges. Binding tight. Jacket in mylar covering shows no corner or edge wear and no tears. Negligible scuffing. Not price clipped. Not a remainder. 6.25" x 9.25." Photos, maps, diagrams, and text. 370 pgs.
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Book Title: The Burma Road: CBI in WWII
Original Language: English
Item Length: 9.25 in
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Mylar Covering
Topic: CBI, China-Burma-India Theater, Flying Tigers, Hump, Merrill's Marauders, Stilwell, World War II
Item Width: 6.25 in
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2003
Type: History
Era: 1940s
Author: Donovan Webster
Genre: History, Military, War & Combat
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 370 pgs
