{"product_id":"burma-the-longest-war-1941-1945","title":"Burma: The Longest War, 1941-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eBurma: The Longest War, 1941–1945 recounts the vast, varied and bitterly fought Burma campaign—the longest theatre of World War II—tracing jungle and desert fighting, the epic British retreat, long-range Chindit penetrations, airlifted operations and brutal hand‑to‑hand combat. Louis Allen reconstructs the campaign from both sides using public and private archives in Tokyo and London, manuscript accounts, correspondence, interviews and his own knowledge of the battlefields, and he weaves military narrative with fresh social dimensions—race, class and sex—alongside literary reflection and the political drive for Burmese independence, while profiling forceful personalities from Stilwell and Wingate to Aung San and Mountbatten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a comprehensive, research‑driven campaign history offering multi‑national perspectives (British, Indian, Burmese, Japanese, Chinese and American) and is often provocative and original in its interpretations; its evidence base includes private soldier accounts and unpublished sources, making it valuable for students and researchers. US edition: St. Martin’s Press; ISBN13: 9780312108588—an authoritative, scholarly contribution rather than a pictorial volume, notable for archival depth and narrative breadth rather than for illustrative supplements. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW2 Bunker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44298896965734,"sku":"9780312108588","price":18.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/4926\/4998\/files\/Y2csHb5Q56BJQcRUrgz0KqviZNsf4WiRE52RrOsDKIM.jpg?v=1767231799","url":"https:\/\/ww2bunker.com\/products\/burma-the-longest-war-1941-1945","provider":"WW2 Bunker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}