Our Jungle Road to Tokyo (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781387367078)

Our Jungle Road to Tokyo is the dazzling account of how US and Allied forces overcame incredible odds to rout invading Japanese from entrenched positions deep in the mountain jungles of Papua New Guinea. Battles take place in swamps, impassable vegetation, coconut plantations with invisible snipers buried in tree roots, hillsides riddled with pill-boxes and maze-like underground bunkers impervious to artillery and mortar. It is a detailed, autobiographical report from a leading architect of the Southwest Pacific Campaign, General Robert Eichelberger, who took his orders directly from Big Chief himself, General Douglas MacArthur. The action begins in earnest with MacArthur's chilling directive to Eichelberger regarding the recapturing of Buna, on Papua's north coast: "Take Buna, Bob, or don't come back alive."

Author: Robert L. Eichelberger
ISBN-10: 1387367072
ISBN-13: 9781387367078
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2017
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d