Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue. Andrew Martin
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Название: Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue
Автор: Andrew Martin
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780007468805
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FLIGHT BY ELEPHANT
The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Rescue
ANDREW MARTIN
CONTENTS
Principal Characters
Author’s Note
Introduction
Millar and Leyden: The Men Without Elephants
The Languorous Dream
The Dapha River
The Red-Hot Buddhas
The Man in the River
Beyond Mandalay
The Railway Party
The ‘Chaukan Club’ Sets Off
The Footprint
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
Also by Andrew Martin
(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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