Screen LibraryThe Burma road：the epic story of the China-Burma-India theater in World War II
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 370 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0374117403 (hard. : alk. paper) 9780374117405 (hard. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K265 |
| CLC: |
K265 K152 K337.43 |
| Call Number: | K152/W378 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. The harrowing story of one of the greatest chapters of World War II---the building and defense of the Burma Road The Burma Road tells the extraordinary story of the China-Burma-India theater of operations during World War II. 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 seven-hundred-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 |