Behind Japanese Lines With the OSS in Burma

Name: Behind Japanese Lines With the OSS in Burma
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ISBN: 9781626365384

ISBN-10: 1626365385

ISBN-13: 9781626365384

Edition: 2014

Authors: Richard Dunlop

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The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II!In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines. Thus was born OSS Detachment 101, the first clandestine special force formed by Donovan and one that would play a highly dangerous but vital role…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Richard Dunlop was the author of many travel and history books, a freelance journalist for the Chicago Tribune and a past president of the Society of Midland Authors. In the late 1960s he was awarded back-to-back Mark Twain Travel Writers Grand Awards. Dunlop passed away in 1987.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;