Jungle Road to Tokyo. By Lieutenant-General Robert L. Eichelberger - (1951) first edition

Jungle Road to Tokyo. By Lieutenant-General Robert L. Eichelberger

Hardback, small name inside, marks and stains to boards. First British Edition. London: Odhams Press, 1951. 288 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and maps.

Written with Milton MacKaye, this is the story of the pursuit and retreat of the Japanese ground forces. The Contents are: A Personal Note; On Our Way; Summons to Buna; Sanananda; Australia and the Amphibs; My Ward Mrs Roosevelt; Fight for the Huon Peninsula; Up the Ladder to Hollandia; We Build the Airfields; Operation Ferdinand; Biak: Battle of the Caves; The New Eighth Army; Leyte Campaign; The Dash for Manila; Fifty-two D-Days; Mindanao; Grand Tour; The Mountains of Luzon; Japan: Peaceful Invasion; Japan: Occupation; and Japan: The Future; followed by an index.