The Burma Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Burma Road write by Donovan Webster. This book was released on 2003. The Burma Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 throughout the war with Japan.
The Burma Road
The Burma Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Burma Road write by Donovan Webster. This book was released on 2004-09-07. The Burma Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Behind the Burma Road
Behind the Burma Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Burma Road write by William Raymond Peers. This book was released on 1964. Behind the Burma Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Burma Campaign
The Burma Campaign - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Burma Campaign write by Frank McLynn. This book was released on 2011-10-04. The Burma Campaign available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This history reveals the failures and fortunes of leadership during the WWII campaign into Japanese-occupied Burma: “a thoroughly satisfying experience” (Kirkus). Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn tells the story of four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War II. This vivid account ranges from Britain’s defeat in 1942 through the crucial battles of Imphal and Kohima—known as "the Stalingrad of the East"—and on to ultimate victory in 1945. Frank McLynn narrative focuses on the interactions and antagonisms of its principal players: William Slim, the brilliant general; Orde Wingate, the idiosyncratic commander of a British force of irregulars; Louis Mountbatten, one of Churchill's favorites, overpromoted to the position of Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia; and Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, a hard-line—and openly anlgophobic—U.S. general. With lively portraits of each of these men, McLynn shows how the plans and strategies of generals and politicians were translated into a hideous reality for soldiers on the ground.
Padre of the Burma Road
Padre of the Burma Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Padre of the Burma Road write by Christopher Sullivan. This book was released on 2013-09. Padre of the Burma Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the young age of twenty-seven, a newly ordained Franciscan priest, Father Christopher Sullivan is sent to China to teach and work in rural China to help establish missions. He describes unbelievable tales of his sacred journey and life as a missionary and transformation as a rural healer. During the Japanese invasion of China from 1940 to 1941, Father Christopher transported supplies from Rangoon to Kunming. He drove and sold trucks through the narrow, winding and mountainous highway of the Burma Road to deliver medications and supplies from the Red Cross to the missions and people in rural China. He was endearingly referred to as the "Padre of the Burma Road." After escaping death by inches on several occasions, Father Christopher Sullivan left his assignment as a Franciscan priest in China during 1941, and sought refuge in the Philippines. He was captured by the Japanese in Bataan in 1942, while working for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and walked the brutal "Bataan Death March." After his harrowing three years in the Japanese prison camps, he met and married Anicia, a young beautiful Filipino woman.
