World War II was a war of uncertainty, and nowhere was it more uncertain than in the China-Burma-India theater. It was fought at the end of supply lines stretched so thin that they often broke, and over terrain that varied from the highest mountains to the densest jungle in the world. In The Chancy War, Edward Fischer tells the story of this difficult campaign, drawing on both his personal experience as a soldier there and the information he gathered as the military's official historian for the theater. - Jacket flap.