NO MANDALAY, NO MAYMYO
(79 SURVIVE)
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In November 1941, aged 22, second lieutenant Gerald Fitzpatrick was reluctantly posted to 'a tropical peace station in the east'.  He had no idea of the turmoil that was to erupt within seventy two hours of his embarkation due to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.  Three months later, on 5th March 1942 he disembarked in Burma, joining what was to become known as Britain's 'Forgotten Army', withdrawing in disarray before the remorseless Japanese advance.

Nearly sixty years later, with deep scepticism turned to incredulity, Captain Fitzpatrick recalls his feelings of betrayal and disillusionment towards those in authority over him and his proud regiment, as they struggled and fought with incredible success in appalling conditions through Burma's torrid and hostile plains and jungles towards the Indian border.  Few survived, and this book seeks to lay bare the flawed and incompetent decisions of those in military command and in Whitehall, that resulted in this most catastrophic of all British army withdrawals.

The story is of the desperate army discarded by Churchill, in which survival required assertion of initiative and determination, superseding seniority in military rank, where necessary.

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