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| Author | : Donovan Webster |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2004-09-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0060746386 |
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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.
| Author | : Frank Rowsome, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 1979-09-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0452267625 |
Download Verse by the Side of the Road Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In the fall of 1925, young Allan Odell conceived the idea of using consecutive signs along the roadside. . . . In 1963 the last signs were taken down, ending the most famous outdoor advertising venture ever.”—1977 Minnesota Almanac The whole story is in this book, plus all the jingles used. The signs are gone now, except for one set on permanent display at The Smithsonian. You can have them all, always, in your own library with this book. “Rowsome’s volume indexes each of the 600 jingles . . . and as you down the list, preferably reading aloud, it might evoke visions of 1940 Chevies, roadside diners, signs that said EATS. . . . Why were the Burma-Shave jingles so universally loved? Because they were light-hearted and humorous in hard times and war times.”—Bov Swift, Knight News Service
| Author | : William Raymond Peers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : David I. Steinberg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2019-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0429724608 |
Download Burma's Road Toward Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A liberalization of economic policies has inspired considerable economic growth and encouraged the development of Burma's natural resources, but, according to David Steinberg, the current military government is akin to previous civilian governments in its commitment to socialism as a vehicle for development. The economic flexibility demonstrated by the government has not been matched by political liberalization, and as a result, economic growth remains a captive of administrative and policy constraints. Steinberg traces the origins and acceptance of socialist thought and planning in Burma and shows how socialist ideology has had to be tempered with pragmatism in order to make economic development possible. Looking to Burma's future, he also points out two central problems facing the country: strained minority relations, which have kept the nation from developing a sense of unity, and difficulties with political succession brought on by the military regime's preoccupation with perpetuating its own leadership.
| Author | : Elmer Olson |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 2011-07-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1463432577 |
Download A Soldier's Letter About His Adventures on the Burma Road During World War Ii Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book was written basically to demonstrate the procedures that Sgt Peter Trunce used in trying to get refugees safely out of Burma and away from the Japanese during World War II. Some of these refugees were their own worst enemies. They died because of their own foolish mistakes, lack of reason and discipline, and lack of knowledge. It was obvious from the letter he wrote that Sgt Trunce had much compassion for the people he was there to help.
| Author | : Christopher Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781432798376 |
Download Padre of the Burma Road Book 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.
| Author | : Jon Diamond |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2016-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472811275 |
Download Burma Road 1943–44 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Myitkyina was a vital objective in the Allied re-conquest of Burma in 1943–44. Following the disastrous retreat from Burma in April 1942, China had become isolated from re-supply except for the dangerous air route for US transports over the Himalaya Mountains. The Burma Road, which ran from Lashio (south of Myitkyina) through the mountains to Kunming was closed as a supply route from Rangoon after the Japanese conquest. Without military assistance, China would be forced to surrender and Imperial Japanese Army forces could be diverted to other Pacific war zones. This is the history of the ambitious joint Allied assault led by American Lt. Gen. Joseph W Stilwell and featuring British, American and Chinese forces as they clashed with three skilled regiments of the Japanese 18th Division. Packed with first-hand accounts, specially commissioned artwork, maps and illustrations and dozens of rare photographs this book reveals the incredible Allied attack on Myitkyina.
| Author | : Nicol Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1942 |
| Genre | : Burma |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Andy Brockman |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2020-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0750995378 |
Download The Buried Spitfires of Burma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rumours of buried Spitfires from the Second World War have spread around the world for seventy-five years. In April 2012, the press reported that the UK had negotiated an agreement with Myanmar for the recovery of twenty crated Spitfires, reportedly buried after WW2. Astonishingly the agreement came about through the single-minded determination of a farmer, David Cundall. Armed with a high-tech survey showing mysterious shapes under the surface of Yangon International Airport, David's expedition is equipped with JCB excavators. But instead of Spitfires, the team unearths a tale of fake history. The Buried Spitfires of Burma explores what happened next as David Cundall's dream unravelled over the course of a historical 'whodunnit' that spans seven decades and three continents. It follows one of the most bizarre stories since the sensational Hitler Diaries hoax.
| Author | : Richard Flanagan |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1784701386 |
Download The Narrow Road to the Deep North Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncleâe(tm)s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanaganâe(tm)s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one manâe(tm)s reckoning with the truth.
