Michael Charney is Professor and Chair of Asian and Military History at SOAS, University of London, UK. He is the author of A History of Modern Burma (2009), Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885 (2006) and Southeast Asian Warfare 1300-1900(2004).

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Metropolitan Transportation Technique from Britain to India and Iraq
2. Local, Colonial Railway Experience
3. A Colonial Railway in Wartime
4. Militarisation
5. Kings of the Road
6. The Technical Limits of Military Supply
7. Dark Territory and the Collapse of the Burma Defense
8. After the Campaign: India Learns from Burma
Notes
Bibliography
Index