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In the Shadow of the Cotton Tree - A Diary of Second World War Sierra Leone (Paperback)
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In the Shadow of the Cotton Tree - A Diary of Second World War Sierra Leone (Paperback)
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In 1940, John Archibald McKenzie Rillie - serving in the Royal Army
Medical Corps and newly married to Betty - was posted to the
African city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This is the first
publication of the writing and the poems, drawn in the main from
his diary and the notebook in which he collated much of his
war-time verse, that mark his experiences in the sixteen months
that followed. In the words of his editor, and grandson, Alasdair
Soussi, it is an 'expressive, outspoken, sometimes raw and
uncomfortable account of a bygone age'. The later reflections of
Jack Rillie, the by then greatly admired and influential university
teacher, on this period - and on his life prior to the war - are
presented in a brief introduction, "A Young Life Recalled". With a
foreword by Andrew Hook and an afterword from Marshall Walker;
reproductions of photographs and letters; and even a list of books
Jack read while in Sierra Leone, the man who inspired so many is
revealed both for his formidable scholarship and his love.
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