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GOODALL**, FELICITY: : EXODUS BURMA: THE BRITISH ESCAPE THROUGH THE JUNGLES OF DEATH 1942

UK.STROUD,GLOS.SPELLMOUNT.THE HISTORY PRESS,2011., 2011

ISBN 9780752460925.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some ubiquitous but light,superficial scoring to panels - but without affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers, book with a very slight lean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8- 239pp [paginated] includes a preface,17 chapters and an epilogue,profuse contemporary matt b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,16pp glossy,contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp128/9,b/w maps; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table with acknowledgements to reverse and an unpaginated last page publisher's b/w photographic advert (other available titles - on/about WW2 Burma experiences) to it's verso. In 1942 the battle-hardened troops of the Japanese Army overran Burma with frightening speed,sweeping a tide of refugees before them. For five months British and Indian troops tried to stem the invasion,but with inadequate equipment and numbers they were no match for the enemy. This unexpected invasion triggered the exodus of half a million people who abandoned their homes and set off on foot for India.They included the elderly,pregnant women,children and exhausted soldiers.Ill-equipped and ill-provisioned they were not prepared for a trek of several hundred miles through dense jungle and ridge upon ridge of steep mountains. Disease,starvation and exhaustion claimed thousands whose graves lie unmarked in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.Whole families were wiped out,and hundreds drowned in the mud as the monsoon turned valleys into swamps and rivers in torrents.Even six months later jungle tracks were lined with the bones of those who had died trying to escape. Survivors lost everything.Scarred by their ordeal,most refused to speak of the nights sleeping amongst corpses,or the daily struggle for survival on the journey.Some used their diaries to expunge the sights and smells they witnessed along the way,and to record the deaths of friends and family.It was a terrible end to an idyllic life in this colonial outpost nicknamed the Golden Land. For the first time diaries,letters and official documents have been drawn on to bring to life this shocking episode in the British Empire's history.The author,Felicity Goodall,has retraced the routes taken by refugees through a country which was transformed from paradise to hell on earth.Her own travels bring added empathy and understanding to the story of those forced to flee when Burma became a battlefield. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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