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Touching, moving and riveting, Webster’s account of this gruelling and arduous campaign is a brilliant and important history, as well as an epic adventure story.   `A compelling narrative . . . The opposing armies pursue one another through tiger-infested jungles, plagued by leeches as they slog miserably from firefight to firefight. This is great material and Webster handles it well’ Los Angeles Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49530560151825,"sku":"GOR001232168","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49596351054097,"sku":"GOR001696090","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"burma-road-book-donovan-webster-9781405041461","title":"The Burma Road","description":"In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Army swept across Asia and the Pacific, no country seemed able to defend itself against its rapid and brutal aggression. 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