TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charney,Michael W.
TI  - Imperial military transportation in British Asia: Burma 1941-1942 
SN  - 1350178101 (pbk.)
AV  - D810.T8 C43 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Railroads
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Burma
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Military engineering
KW  - Transportation, Military
N1  - Reprint. Originally published: 2019; Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index; Introduction -- 1. Metropolitan transportation technique from Britain to India and Iraq -- 2. Local, colonial railway experience -- 3. The failure of civilian management of a colonial railway in wartime -- 4. Militarization and the Rangoon to Prome branch -- 5. Kings of the road: decentralization and local initiative on the railway -- 6. The technical limits of the railway: the Mandalay to Lashio branch -- 7. Dark territory: the Myitkyina branch, late April to early May 1942 -- 8. After Burma: the militarization of railways in India
ER  -