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VG. No Jacket. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, some offsetting to outer leaves, cloth a little rubbed & sunned, some marks; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 344, with illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.
John Masters was an English officer in a Gurkha Rifle regiment of the Indian Army. After the war he settled in the US and became an author. He wrote a series of novels of an English family that lived and worked in India between the days of Elizabeth I and 1947. This book is the second volume of his autobiography.
The first volume, "Bugles and a Tiger" describes his career as an officer, from a Sandhurst cadet through everyday life in a cantonment in North India to a campaign in the area on the border to Afghanistan.
This book takes up the tale at the beginning of World War II. Masters is fighting the Vichy French Army in the Iraq and begins to work as a regimental staff officer. He is then sent to staff college in India. His Rifle regiment makes up part of the Chindit force operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma. The tale is exciting in itself and shows how important staff organisation and logistics are to keep a fast-moving conventional force in the field. It also shows the limits of how long such a force can fight in the jungle.
The text is fascinating reading, and one absorbs quite a lot of technical knowledge without noticing. I like the descriptions of the countryside, the author"s dry humor and his personal frankness. Both books together belong to a limited list that I read again and again.
