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The Burma road : the epic story of the China-Burma-India theater in World War II / (Record no. 2767)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | DCL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.5425 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Webster, Donovan |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Burma road : the epic story of the China-Burma-India theater in World War II / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Donovan Webster. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | HarperCollins Publisher, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2003. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 359 pages : |
| Other physical details | maps ; |
| Dimensions | 20 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | <br/>"The Burma Road tells the 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 Burma in early 1942, the Burma Road was severed, and it became the task of the newly arrived American General Stilwell to re-open it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma as the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan.".<br/><br/>"Donovan Webster follows the breathtaking adventures of the American "Hump" pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas to make food-drops in China; tells the true story of the mission that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai; and recounts the grueling jungle operations of Merrill's Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades. Interspersed with vivid portraits of the American General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the exceedingly eccentric British General Orde Wingate, and the mercurial Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision | Campaigns |
| Geographic subdivision | Myanmar |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Myanmar |
| Form subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Myanmar Road (China and Myanmar) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Short Term |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Accession No. | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | English Collection | 4251 | Dhammadhara | Dhammadhara | English Shelves | 21/12/2025 | 940.5425 We 4251 | EB00004251 | 21/12/2025 | 21/12/2025 | Short Term |