The Burma Road - The Epic Story of One of World War II's Most Remarkable Endeavours

Informationen zum Autor Donovan Webster was a senior editor for Outside magazine and writes for National Geographic , Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine . He is the author of Aftermath: The Remnants of War and The Burma Road . He lives with his family in Virginia, USA. Klappentext The Epic Story of One of World War II's Most Remarkable EndeavoursThe Epic Story of One of World War II's Most Remarkable Endeavours Zusammenfassung In the tradition of Band of Brothers and Anthony Beevor’s Stalingrad, Donovan Webster’s The Burma Road vividly recreates one of the astonishing and important events of the Second World War – and the basis for the film The Bridge over the River Kwai. With gripping prose, Webster follows the breathtaking adventures of the Allied ‘Hump’ pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas delivering food and supplies to the 200,000 Chinese labourers charged with creating an overland link with the outside world. For the first time, we learn of the war in Burma from the perspective of the of the soldiers who fought and died there – the bravery, hardships and fears that motivated them to risk everything to avoid a full Japanese occupancy of China. Touching, moving and riveting, Webster’s account of this gruelling and arduous campaign is a brilliant and important history, as well as an epic adventure story. ‘A compelling narrative . . . The opposing armies pursue one another through tiger-infested jungles, plagued by leeches as they slog miserably from firefight to firefight. This is great material and Webster handles it well’ Los Angeles Times

Product details

• Authors: Donovan Webster, Webster Donovan
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9781447264873
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-6487-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Guides; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Myanmar, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, True war & combat stories, Humanities, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, True war and combat stories, Battles and campaigns