Behind the Burma Road Behind the Burma Road Behind the Burma Road is a 1963 book by William R. Peers and Dean Brelis that describes the American guerrilla warfare operations, including those of OSS Detachment 101, during the Burma Campaign in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. The book aims in part to be a primer for guerilla fighters. It lists Detachment 101's accomplishments as far as they were known at the time in terms of the effects of its attacks on and harassment of the Japanese during World War II. In their own terms, their score included "5,428 known enemy
A590 road "the longest cul-de-sac in the world". From east to west, the A590 originally terminated at the A6 road near Levens. Its route followed a number of country roads via a series of Turn Off To Stay On (TOTSO)'s, passing through a number of villages including Lindale, High and Low Newton, Newby Bridge and Greenodd into the larger town of Ulverston. This road formed a large part of the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park upon its formation in 1951. This stretch of road has now undergone a series of improvements and route alignments. In the mid-1970s, the A591