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020			_a1350178101 (pbk.)
020			_a9781350178106 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1139271029
050			_aD810.T8 _bC43 2020
100	1		_aCharney, Michael W.
245	1	0	_aImperial military transportation in British Asia : _bBurma 1941-1942 / _cMichael W. Charney.
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Academic, _c2020.
300			_axiv, 234 p. : _bill., maps.
500			_aReprint. Originally published: 2019.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xTransportation.
650		4	_aRailroads _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aRailroads _zBurma _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aRailroads _zIraq _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aMilitary engineering _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aTransportation, Military _xHistory _y20th century.
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