When he was just 19, officer John Nunneley arrived in Kenya to join the King's African Rifles, a famous colonial regiment. He first led his "askaris" in Africa and then in Burma's Kabow Valley-- otherwise known as the "Valley of Death"--where they fought Japan's elite White Tigers. Nunneley's emotionally searing memoir captures a vanished world, as well as the terror of battling a fierce enemy in close quarters...in a jungle that literally drove men out of their minds. "Enthralling...vivid and compelling...fearlessly honest ...
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When he was just 19, officer John Nunneley arrived in Kenya to join the King's African Rifles, a famous colonial regiment. He first led his "askaris" in Africa and then in Burma's Kabow Valley-- otherwise known as the "Valley of Death"--where they fought Japan's elite White Tigers. Nunneley's emotionally searing memoir captures a vanished world, as well as the terror of battling a fierce enemy in close quarters...in a jungle that literally drove men out of their minds. "Enthralling...vivid and compelling...fearlessly honest and powerfully told."--"William Boyd."
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