Bugles And A Tiger

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 first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIThe first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII Zusammenfassung The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Masters
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780304361564
• ISBN: 978-0-304-36156-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS; CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS; Cassell Military; W&N Military
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Myanmar, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Military / General, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Second World War, Asian History, Biography: historical, political and military, Myanmar (Burma)