Tony B Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 BBC Radio 7 are serialising Geiorge Mc Donald Frazer's memoirs of his service in Burma. Read by the Authour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Brilliant Book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 It's on BBC iplayer at the moment, until 15th Nov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMS Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Just read the book, well worth a read. Also just read "The Forgotten Highlander", i would highly recommend reading it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) yep 'The Forgotten HIghlander' is a grade A 100% of a book.... ......I'm just reading one of the 'forgotten voices' series of books ....midway thru the one on Burma which was written / collected by Julian Thomspson the retired British Army fella of Falklands fame........awesome stuff very good indeed..... one part relates something that whilst being rather grim, did make me chuckle a bit... some Ghurka fellas were orderd to bury some dead Japanese....apparantly in those days the Ghurkas didn't really hold with this 'burying' business ...especially when it concerned burying dead enemy soldiers...but they eventually set to..however.... being of an ingenious nature they didn't bother to dig any graves........the Japs in that particular battle had been fighting out of very small one man foxholes.......so the Ghurkas started chucking the bodies back into the foxholes instead... only problem was ...having been dead for a few days the corpses were stiff with rigor mortis....... .so the Ghurkas simply set to with a will and used their kurkri knives to chop the bodies up into smaller bits that would fit in the holes better....arms legs and heads were all uncermoniously chopped off... ....apparantly when their CO found out exactly how they'd achieved the job he was rather appalled and ordered them not to do such a thing again..... Edited November 2, 2011 by RattlesnakeBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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