In the waters outside the harbor of Rangoon, loaded ships lay at anchor. Out at sea other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon’s wharfside thoroughfare, ...

Herman Perry’s heart hammered against his ribcage. He was cornered. Officer Harold Cady and two imposing US servicemen loomed ...

In the searing heat of the Burmese jungle, a ragtag band of renegades known as the Chindits was about to have their mettle tested like never before. These fearless misfits, hailing from India, Burma, ...

The 1956 Japanese film “The Burmese Harp” tells the story of a Japanese infantry unit in Burma (now Myanmar) at the tail end of World War II, and in its meticulous storytelling it achieves a form of ...

In thick jungle, in southern Myanmar, two soldiers cover a freshly dug pit with tree trunks. The floor of the emerging air-raid shelter, which will fit a dozen people, is already covered with rattan ...

The main British objective was to retake Akyab, the small seaport on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. It failed for several reasons: > The occupation of Akyab depended on speedy movement and sea ...

In a burgeoning encampment here on Burma's eastern frontier, Hay Nay Tha, a 30-year-old mother of three, awakens in the darkness most nights to the sound of her children's screams. "They keep having ...

CAMP EITUTA, Burma -- -- CAMP EITUTA, Burma -- In a burgeoning encampment here on Burma's eastern frontier, Hay Nay Tha, a 30-year-old mother of three, awakens in the darkness most nights to the sound ...

Dave Eubank makes an exploding gesture with his fist to alert the guerrilla soldiers following him of the danger ahead. “From here until we pass the road, the trail is lined with mines,” he says, ...

A dozen armed recruits crawl along a dusty pathway, the cicadas masking any sound of their approach towards their target, a small village in the jungles of Myanmar. The ambush scenario is fabricated ...

In a remote part of Myanmar’s far west, where narrow roads zigzag through treacherous mountain passes and villages nestle on precipitous slopes and ridges, lives a centuries-old community of hunters.