The Road Past Mandalay

Informationen zum Autor John Masters was commissioned into the Gurkha Rifles on the eve of the Second World War and rose to command one of the Chindit columns fighting behind the lines against the Japanese in Burma. He left the Army after the war to pursue a very profitable career as a novelist. Klappentext The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs. The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war Zusammenfassung The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Masters
• Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780304361571
• ISBN: 978-0-304-36157-1
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Serien: CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS; CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS; W&N Military
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch; Myanmar, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / Special Forces, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, Battles & campaigns, True war and combat stories, Myanmar (Burma)