RELEASE NOTES:

Passed to another BookCrosser for wild release

Pre-numbered label used for registration.

I have kept this back to read before wild releasing.

I have held onto this book for a long time before reading it. My TBR is horrendous.

This epic saga is worth reading. It covers the period from the British take-over of Burma to the the 1980's, narrated from an 'ex-pat' Indian perspective. It has been meticulously researched and covers the teak and rubber trade, in Burma and Malaya, The Indian Army and growth of the Indian Independance movements and the second world war. There was a lot I had never heard of, such as the 1941 Long March. Some aspects I could have done without, such as the description of Anthrax affecting elephants, but overall I was kept intrigued by the major characters such as Rajkumar and Dolly.

The debates within the Indian army, which split when the Japanese invaded with some remaining 'loyal' to the Crown and some fighting for the Japanese led to some of the saddest scenes in the book.

I am going to read some more of this author's work.

I intend to wild release it in Sainbury, Nuneaton this morning.

On a bench outside the store