John Masters
John Masters was commissioned into the Gurkha Rifles on the eve of the Second World War and rose to command one of the Chindit columns fighting behind the lines against the Japanese in Burma. He left the Army after the war to pursue a very profitable career as a novelist.
John Masters was commissioned into the Gurkha Rifles on the eve of the Second World War and rose to command one of the Chindit columns fighting behind the lines against the Japanese in Burma. He left the Army after the war to pursue a very profitable career as a novelist. See less
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John Masters book reviews
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The road past Mandalay : a personal narrative.
The Personal Tale of the Burmese Campaign in WW 2
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 ... Read More
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Bugles and a Tiger
Bugles and a Tiger Top Notch
by Sailor, Aug 9, 2007
A great book covering the period from the mid-1930s to the beginning of WWII. Masters served with the Indian Army, specifically in a Gurkha regiment. He writes of his training at Sandhurst, his ... Read More
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Bugles and a Tiger
End of an Empire
by Bento, Apr 3, 2007
Personal narrative of a British officer serving with the Gurkha in India and Afghanistan just before the beginning of the II World War. John Masters gives us a very detailed and graphic description ... Read More
