Webster, Donovan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: From the Publisher: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003