While on the subject of the Burma Road, there happens to be an excellent book with the same title:  "The Burma Road" by Donovan Webster.  ISBN 0-06-074638-6.    To wet your interest, here are two very brief selections:    "When I met them at their reunions and in their homes, the Old Soldiers warm me not even to go looking. To a man, every one of them believes the road they hacked across India's steep Himalayan passes and down through the steaming jungles of Burma into China during World War II has disappeared, destroyed by time.  ...........But now, step after stem-and in the cool of a mid-January morning, my feet are moving up the same gravel pike the Old Soldiers have cautioned me about.......... The jungle was everywhere.  Its vines grabbed their ankles as they walked.  Its steamy heat sapped their strength.  And every time they reached the summit of yet another six-thousand-foot mountain, they could only stare across the quilted green rain forest below.........They were a ragged line of 114 tired and hungry people-Americans, British, Indians and Burmese:  civilians and soldiers alike-and they were now on the run from several thousand Japanese troops that were clawing through the jungle after them, only fifteen or twenty miles behind. The year was 1942......... A recommended read for any one. Kerrie Farmer way over here in the cold blue mountains of western North Carolina...