China-Burma-India theater

The China-Burma-India (CBI) theater was created by the U.S., Britain and China and operated 1941 to 1945 to fight Japan on the mainland of Asia.

Bibliography

• Bidwell Shelford. The Chindit War: Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma,

1944. (1979)

• Byrd Martha. Chennault: Giving Wings to the Tiger. (1987).
• Callahan Raymond. Burma, 1942-1945. (1978).
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II. 7 vols. 1948- 1958.

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• Kirby S. Woodburn. Singapore: The Chain of Disaster. (1971).
• Kirby S. Woodburn. The War against Japan. ( Vols. 1-5. 1957- 1969), official British history; highly detailed.
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• Lewin Ronald. Slim: The Standardbearer. (1976).
• Liang, Chin-Tun. Gen. Stilwell in China, 1942-1944 (1972), a pro-Chiang view
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• Prasad B., ed. Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War (1939-1945). (Delhi: Orient Longmans, 1954- ).
• Romanus, Charles F. and Riley Sunderland. Stilwell's Mission to China (1953), official U.S. Army history online edition; Stilwell's Command Problems (1956) online edition; Time Runs Out in CBI (1958) online edition. Official U.S. Army history
• Rooney David. Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima and the Chindit Issue. (1992).
• Schaller Michael. The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945. (1979). online edition
• Thorne Bliss K. The Hump: The Great Military Airlift of World War II. (1965).
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Primary Sources

• Chiang Kai-Shek. The Collected Wartime Messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, 1937-1945, (1946) online edition
• Stilwell, Joseph Warren. The Stilwell papers edited by Theodore H. White, (1958).
• Stone, James H. ed. Crisis Fleeting: Original Reports on Military Medicine in India and Burma

in the Second World War, (1969) online edition

See also

• Chiang Kai-shek
• Joseph Warren Stilwell
• World War II