Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Venues and Opening Shots. 2. The Japanese Enlarge Their War. 3. First Strikes. 4. War Comes to Burma. 5. Further Additions to the Cast. 6. "We Got a Hell of a Beating". 7. CBI Doldrums. 8. Enter the Chindits. 9. Detachment 101, the Burma Road, and the Hump. 10. Offensive Preparations. 11. Long-Range Penetrations and Arakan Revisited. 12. Marauders and Thursday. 13. Chindits and Imphal. 14. The Northern Burma Campaign. 15. Imphal and Kohima Besieged, Chindits Beset, Marauders Perturbed. 16. Myitkyina Morass. 17. Finales for Marauders and Chindits. 18. Matterhorn. 19. The Prisoners of War. 20. The Tide Turns. 21. Death Throes of an Army. 22. Final Bloody Days. 23. After-Action Report. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

Gerald Astor, a former magazine editor and writer, has published twenty previous books, including A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It; June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day; and The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It.

Reviews

"Strikes an excellent balance between informing the reader as well as keeping him engaged. An outstanding read." (On Point: The Journal of Army History)