Synopsis
Popular Library Paperback; copyright 1949, no other date stated but pre-ISBN. 221 pp of text. Size MMPB. Binding intact; no loose pages; spine not creased. Covers and pages clean and unmarked EXCEPT front cover edges and spine edges show minor shelf wear. Bates wrote two stories of Burma in WWII, the other being "The Purple Plain"; this story is of an unprepared man who, because of his position as manager of the rice mill, is compelled to lead the British colonials out of Burma ahead of the Japanese invasion, with disastrous results.
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