Rails of WarIn a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time, James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers labored at a thankless task under oppressive conditions. Nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without the men of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied forces would have been defeated in the China Burma India conflict in World War II. Steven James Hantziss father served alongside other GI railroaders in overcoming danger,