Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue. Andrew Martin
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      FLIGHT BY ELEPHANT

       The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue

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      ANDREW MARTIN

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      CONTENTS

       Title Page

       Maps

      Principal Characters

      Author’s Note

      Introduction

      Millar and Leyden: The Men Without Elephants

       The Man With Elephants

       The Boy Who Took Acidalia trigeminata

       Sir John Meets the Commandos

       The Wizard’s Domain

       A Bad Start for Mackrell

       War And Tea (Part One)

       War And Tea (Part Two)

       Captain Wilson Sets Out

       Elephant Trouble for Mackrell

       Mackrell Reaches the Dapha River

       Sir John Encounters His Principal Enemy

       The Man in Sunglasses

       Mackrell Consolidates at the Dapha River

       Captain Wilson Arrives at the Dapha

       Havildar Iman Sing

       The Commandos Despair of Reaching the Dapha

       Grand Tiffins and the Squits

       The Drop

       Momentous Decisions

       Mackrell Returns Temporarily to Civilization

       Mackrell in Shillong and Calcutta

       The Society of Tough Guys

       A Face Like Wood: Dharramsing Decides

       A Delivery of Mail

       A Long Wait

       Subsequently (Part One)

      Subsequently (Part Two)

      Late Period Mackrell

      Select Bibliography

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

       Praise

      Also by Andrew Martin

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

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       PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

      (In approximate order of appearance)

      Guy Millar: a tea planter. Early in the war, he had been engaged on secret ‘government work’, surveying the terrain of Upper Burma.

      Goal Miri: an Assamese elephant tracker, and Millar’s servant.

      John Leyden: a colonial administrator in Upper Burma; owner of a pregnant spaniel bitch called Misa.

      Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith: Governor of Burma, the elegant product of Harrow, Cambridge, Sandhurst.

      George Rodger: British photographer and correspondent for the American magazine, Life.

       In ‘The Railway Party’ …

      – Sir John Rowland: Chief Railway Commissioner of Burma (the top man on Burma Railways). In 1942, he was sixty years old, and working on ‘the Burma–China construction’, a projected railway between Burma and China. He was the leader of the ‘railway party’ of refugees, and he drove them on hard.

      – Edward Lovell Manley: Chief Engineer of the Eastern Bengal Railway, he assisted Sir John on the Burma–China project. In the jungle, Sir John designated Manley his ‘number two’. He was fifty-six years old.

      – Eric Ivan Milne: District Traffic Superintendent of Burma State Railways; keen amateur cricketer and committed Christian.

      – C. L. Kendall: railway surveyor on the Burma–China project.

      – Captain A. O. Whitehouse: officer of the Royal Engineers.

      – N. Moses: enigmatic Dutch railway surveyor, sometime magician and ‘international boy scout’.

      – E. Eadon: Anglo-Indian ‘anti-malarial inspector’ on the Burma–China project.

      – Dr Burgess-Barnett: medical doctor and Superintendent of Rangoon Zoological Gardens. In the jungle, Sir John designated him ‘PMO’ (Principal Medical Officer).

       In ‘Rossiter’s Party’ (sub-group of the above) …

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