The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

A haunting tale of the Burma theater during World War II. Burma was the most distant theater for Americans and on the outskirts of the British Empire. Out of sight and mind, perhaps, but Burma became a site for savage, murderous, brutal, terrifying combat among men against a backdrop of nature at its most primeval--thickly encrusted jungle; steep hills and mountains; canyons; gorges; swift, wide streams; monsoon torrents; blistering sun; infernal pestilence; starvation; and dehydration. 

Reluctant to fight a war in Burma as some were, the stakes were enormous: immense tracts of land, inestimable natural resources, huge markets, richly endowed trade routes, and control of half the world’s population. Advance towards the west by imperial forces if it broke through into India, would also link Japan with its Axis partners. Burma could not be ignored.