14 x 21 cm.; pg. 207 ; Foreword by Mountbatten of Burma, author's preface, map; foxing top edge. Very good in lightly chipped and soiled dust-jacket, price clipped. "'After the fall of Malaya and Burma in 1942', writes Lord Mountbatten in his foreword, 'the Japanese High Command soon decided that the line of communication between these two countries must be improved. Neither roads nor railways existed, only tracks; and the Japanese first effort was to initiate the construction of the notorious Burma-Siam railway.' BRANCH LINE TO BURMA is the personal story of a young Artillery officer, serving with a Scottish yeomanry regiment, who spent three years of his life enduring--and surviving--the incredible hardships of working as a prisoner-or-war on this ruthless undertaking, which cost thousands of allied lives only to be given back to the jungle."

World War II Thailand