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The astonishing firsthand account of any American special pushes unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla businesses against japan during World Warfare II! In early 1942, with World Warfare II going terribly, President Roosevelt turned to Standard William "Wild Invoice" Donovan, now known historically as the daddy of Central Cleverness," with orders to form a particular unit whose most important mission was to get ready for the eventual reopening of the Burma Highway linking Burma and China by carrying out guerilla businesses behind japan lines. Thus was created OSS Detachment 101, the first clandestine special make developed by Donovan and the one which would play an extremely dangerous but essential role in the reconquest of Burma by the Allies. Behind Japan Lines, originally released in 1979, is the enjoyable history of the men of Detachment 101, who, with their loyal indigenous alliesthe Kachin headhunters fought a guerilla war for almost 36 months. It had been a war not only against a hardcore and unyielding opponent, but contrary to the jungle itself, one of the very most difficult and dangerous areas of terrain in the world. Subjected to blistering high temperature and threatened by loathsome exotic diseases, the Western-raised OSS men also found themselves beset by unfriendly tribesmen and surrounded by the jungle's unique perilsgiant leeches, cobras, and rogue tigers. Not only a war narrative, Behind Japan Lines can be an adventure story, the story of unconventional men with an extremely difficult mission fighting with each other an irregular war in supremely hostile place. Drawing after the author's own encounters as a member of Detachment 101, interviews with surviving 101 members, and grouped documents, Dunlop's story unfolds with cinematic power, detailing the danger, tension, and crisis of top secret warfare. Never before have the actions of the OSS been documented in such genuine firsthand detail.
