[Books 2007] Burma Boy
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inulro36. Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele
The author was recently pimping this on Radio 4 (Probably Midweek, could have been Start the Week) and I thought it sounded interesting. It's a fictional account of the West African forces that were part of the Chindits fighting in Burma in WWII. The author's grandfather was one of these and the book is taken from his accounts of the experience.
It starts out promisingly enough introducing the reader to Orde Wingate (who I last encountered in The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War[1]).
Unfortunately, it failed to grip me from there. It's well enough written, but nothing really grabbed me about it, and I didn't feel like I was gaining any insight to - well, much of anything. Thankfully it's very short.
[1] Now there's a book I heartily recommend.
The author was recently pimping this on Radio 4 (Probably Midweek, could have been Start the Week) and I thought it sounded interesting. It's a fictional account of the West African forces that were part of the Chindits fighting in Burma in WWII. The author's grandfather was one of these and the book is taken from his accounts of the experience.
It starts out promisingly enough introducing the reader to Orde Wingate (who I last encountered in The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War[1]).
Unfortunately, it failed to grip me from there. It's well enough written, but nothing really grabbed me about it, and I didn't feel like I was gaining any insight to - well, much of anything. Thankfully it's very short.
[1] Now there's a book I heartily recommend.
