Download or read book Out of the Burma Night written by R. H. Gribble and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Burma the Untold Story written by Won-loy Chan and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly-written, candid, and often-amusing [story] of action, [throwing] much new light on...the Allies' toughest theater.--Springfield Newspapers

Download or read book Dawns Like Thunder written by Alfred Draper and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawns Like Thunder' is a complete appraisal of the retreat from Burma using accounts from people who were there and not just the statements of commanding officers.

Download or read book Among Insurgents written by Shelby Tucker and published by Radcliffe Press. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Insurgents describes the author's journey into Burma through a border area of China closed to foreigners, through the Shan and Kachin States, and out of Burma via an area of India closed to foreigners. En route, he was detained by Communist insurgents, handed over to Kachin insurgents and arrested by the Indian Army. Among Insurgents also examines the symbiotic relationship between the civil war in Burma and the international drugs trade. The author interviewed growers of opium poppies and leaders on both sides of the narcotics divide, and his report to the US National Security Council may have contributed to Washington's changed perception of the Burmese Army as the main player in the trade.

Download or read book The Burma Road written by Douglas Coe and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book India Burma written by David W. Hogan and published by Army Center of Military History. This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trek from Burma written by George Tidey and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Campaign in Burma written by Great Britain. Central Office of Information and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Through the Jungle of Death written by Stephen Brookes and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION "As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II."--Daily Mail (London) "A tale of hair-raising adventure, survival, love and loss, shot through with rage, polemic, unlikely humour and a rare spiritual sensibility."--Telegraph Magazine (London) "Unique and heartfelt . . . a tale of human resilience and bravery in the most desperate circumstances."--The Irish News "Written with simplicity, understanding, and surprising good humour. It deserves to be read."--The Times Educational Supplement (London)

Download or read book Amiable Assassins written by Ian Fellowes-Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma written by Michael D. Leigh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The string of military defeats during 1942 marked the end of British hegemony in Southeast Asia, finally destroying the myth of British imperial invincibility. The Japanese attack on Burma led to a hurried and often poorly organized evacuation of Indian and European civilians from the country. The evacuation was a public humiliation for the British and marked the end of their role in Burma. The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma investigates the social and political background to the evacuation, and the consequences of its failure. Utilizing unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs and official reports, Michael Leigh provides the first comprehensive account of the evacuation, analyzing its source in the structures of colonial society, fractured race relations and in the turbulent politics of colonial Burma.

Download or read book Burma and the Japanese Invader written by John LeRoy Christian and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Battle for Burma 1942 1945 written by Philip Jowett and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for Burma during the Second World War was of vital importance to the Allies and the Japanese. The Allies fought to protect British India and force the Japanese out of Burma; the Japanese fought to defend the north-west flank of their newly conquered empire and aimed to strike at India where anti-British feeling was growing stronger. Yet the massive military efforts mounted by both sides during four years of war are often overshadowed by the campaigns in Europe, North Africa, the Pacific and China. Philip Jowett, using over 200 wartime photographs, many of them not published before, retells the story of the war in Burma in vivid detail, illustrating each phase of the fighting and showing all the forces involved – British, American, Chinese, Indian, Burmese as well as Japanese. His book is a fascinating introduction to one of the most extreme, but least reported, struggles of the entire war. The narrative and the striking photographs carry the reader through each of the major phases of the conflict, from the humiliation of the initial British defeat in 1942 and retreat into India and their faltering attempts to recover the initiative from 1943, to the famous Chindit raids behind Japanese lines, the Japanese offensive of 1944 and their disastrous retreat and ultimate defeat.

Download or read book The Burma Road written by Donovan Webster and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A Brief Study of the Burma Campaign 1943 45 written by S. G. Chaphekar and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Muddy Exodus written by Stanley Farrant Russell and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kachin written by Bertil Lintner and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable for their military prowess, their receptivity to Christianity, and their intricate all-embracing kinship network, the Kachins are a hardy mountain people living in the remote hills of northern Burma and on the peripheries of Indian and China. During the Second World War they strongly aided the Allies in defending Burma against the imperialist designs of the Japanese, earning themselves sorbriquets such as 'amiable assassins' and 'Ghurkas of Southeast Asia.' After Burma's independence in 1948, the Kachins were given their own state, but in the early 1960s they went to war again, this time fighting for autonomy for their homeland. For over thirty years, funded largely by the world-renowned jade mines they control, they maintained their armed insurgency, playing a key role in Burma's internecine struggles. In 1994 the Kachins signed a cease-fire agreement which they hope marks the start of an era of peace.