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Through the Jungle of Death - A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma (Hardcover)
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Through the Jungle of Death - A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 220
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In 1942, as war spread in the Far East and the British, Japanese
and Chinese fought ferocious battles on Burmese soil, an
11-year-old Anglo-Burmese boy and his family found themselves
trapped in the path of the advancing armies. Like hundreds of
thousands of other refugees abandoned by the civil administration,
their only hope of survival was to try to escape on foot to India
through the dense jungles of Northern Burma.;Stephen Brookes was
that young boy, and in this account he describes the flight from
his affluent home and the fearful 3000-mile journey that partially
destroyed his family. It took them via China and the Burma Road,
ending in a 300-mile barefoot trek across mountain ridges, where
they were ambushed by Chinese soldiers, through the terrible jungle
swamps of the Hukawng Valley at the height of the monsoon and into
the horror of an internment camp where they were left to rot for
months. Those eight months of fear, sickness and starvation turned
him from a boy into a man as he witnessed the death of his father
and took on responsibility for his mother and sick brother and
sister until they finally reached safety at Jhansi in India.
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