Publisher Description

The untold story of Chinese and Americans standing side-by-side, fighting together and dying together on the highest, most rugged battlegrounds of WWII. In May 1942, the Japanese 15th Army conquered Burma and southwest China. Only a desperate defence by disorganised and defeated Chinese troops and the war-weary remains of Claire Chennault's mercenary Flying Tigers stopped the advance at the Salween River. For two years, the people of southwest China lived under an oppressive Japanese occupation while Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin Roosevelt, General Joseph Stilwell, and Major General Claire Chennault bickered over what to do next. Finally, in May 1944, the Chinese Expeditionary Force, with American supplies and advisors, supported from above by the legendary 14th Air Force, crossed the Salween to take back what they had lost. AUTHOR: Daniel Jackson graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in military history and a minor in Chinese language. 112 b/w photographs and maps

Author Biography

Daniel Jackson graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in military history and a minor in Chinese language. He is now an Air Force pilot living with his beautiful wife near Pensacola, Florida.

Long Description

The untold story of Chinese and Americans standing side-by-side, fighting together and dying together on the highest, most rugged battlegrounds of WWII. In May 1942, the Japanese 15th Army conquered Burma and southwest China. Only a desperate defense by disorganized and defeated Chinese troops and the war-weary remains of Claire Chennault's mercenary Flying Tigers stopped the advance at the Salween River. For two years, the people of southwest China lived under an oppressive Japanese occupation while Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin Roosevelt, General Joseph Stilwell, and Major General Claire Chennault bickered over what to do next. Finally, in May 1944, the Chinese Expeditionary Force, with American supplies and advisors, supported from above by the legendary 14th Air Force, crossed the Salween to take back what they had lost.

Review Quote

"The history of the China, Burma, India Theater has never got the attention it deserves in the otherwise voluminous literature about World War II. Dan Jackson's new book is a valuable contribution towards filling this gap, mixing the general's bird's-eye view with the perspective of the ordinary soldiers and airmen who fought and died in some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. It's an added strength that Mr. Jackson's background as a military pilot gives him a natural familiarity with the subject matter that few professional historians can match." - Peter Harmsen, author of Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze

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In 1942, the Japanese conquered southwest China; in 1944, a joint Chinese-American campaign took it back Everything from the political battles in Washington to the soldiers on the battlefield and the airmen overhead The centerpiece was the battle to liberate Tengchong, surrounded by 30-foot-tall stone walls

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In 1942, the Japanese conquered southwest China; in 1944, a joint Chinese-American campaign took it back Everything from the political battles in Washington to the soldiers on the battlefield and the airmen overhead The centerpiece was the battle to liberate Tengchong, surrounded by 30-foot-tall stone walls

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In 1942, the Japanese conquered southwest China; in 1944, a joint Chinese-American campaign took it back Everything from the political battles in Washington to the soldiers on the battlefield and the airmen overhead The centerpiece was the battle to liberate Tengchong, surrounded by 30-foot-tall stone walls

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