The Burma Road

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ISBN-10:

1405041463

ISBN-13:

9781405041461

Author(s): Donovan Webster
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 2004
Publisher: Macmillan
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
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Description:

In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Army swept across Asia and the Pacific, no country seemed able to defend itself against its rapid and brutal aggression. China in particular was the target of increasing Japanese invasion and occupation until it no longer had any active seaports under its control. To give themselves an artery to trade with the outside world, more than 200,000 Chinese laboureres cut a 700 mile overland route - the Burma Road - from the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma, in less than a year. Lashio was connected by rail to the Burmese port of Rangoon, and through this tenuous system fo conveyances the Chinese people were kept briefly supplied with goods from the outside world. But when Burma fell to Japan in early 1942, the Burma Road was severed. This book tells the sprawling, sometimes hilarious, often tragic, and still largeley unknown stories of the war in Burma from the perspective of the soldiers who fought and sometimes died there, and whose recollections bring a largely forgotten chapter of World War II into focus.

























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