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Behind the Burma Road
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Pages: 194
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The Burma Road
Language: en
Pages: 400
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

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Chronicles the effort by 200,000 Chinese laborers to build a seven-hundred-mile road through the jungle to Rangoon, Burma, in order to keep the Chinese supplied
Behind Japanese Lines
Language: en
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-04 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William “Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the “Father of
The OSS in Burma
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Authors: Troy J. Sacquety
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-15 - Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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"One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese," said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it "the most forbidding fighting country imaginab
The Burma Campaign
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: Frank McLynn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-04 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This history reveals the failures and fortunes of leadership during the WWII campaign into Japanese-occupied Burma: “a thoroughly satisfying experience” (Ki