The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
By Donovan Webster.
Description
The harrowing story of one of the greatest chapters of World War II---the building and defense of the Burma RoadThe 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 Burm...
ISBN(s)
9780374117405
