This author is extraordinarily lucky to be alive All those who read
this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless come to the
same view. returncharacterreturncharacterAfter joining up in 1939
with the Queen's Royal Regiment the Author was posted to the North
West Frontier of India where he cut his teeth chasing Pathan
tribesman bandit gangs for two years. This was exciting enough but
only a taste of what was to come. The Japanese advance into Burma
threatened India and along with many thousands of British and
Colonial troops Lowry found himself fighting in the Arakan region.
Conditions were appalling and the fighting was extremely bitter by
any standards. His Battalion was cut off by the Japs for three
weeks but refused to surrender yet even worse was to come as the
Battalion was thrown into the thick of the action at Kohima which
is rated as the most desperate defensive action for the campaign.
In one week 173 members of this Battalion were lost. Lowry himself
was seriously wounded when a Japanese officer dropped out of a tree
onto him. All this is vividly described in this fascinating and
inspiring book.
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