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1979 · 82071 — New York: Bantam Books 1979. Bantam Edition Specially Illustrated Edition. Mass market paperback. Good. 10 288 4 pages. Illustration. This is one of the Bantam War Book series. Contents contain Choice of the Bullet; Left to my Fate; Coming of the Japs; A Jungle Shangri-la; "Gentlemen You Are the Decoy"; The Hell of Burma's Jungle; Ambush Armageddon; The Survivors Fight on; Beyond the Irrawaddy; Kill Those Men!; The Only Way Out; Haunted Hours; Calamitous Crossing; The Maimed Lead the Maimed; "Prisoner--Presumed Dead"; Death of a Hero; Shot By a Traitor; and The Miracle of the Swamp. Includes a full page black and white map of the Burma Theater. The Amazing Account of a Jungle Fighter's Escape Through Japanese Lines in World War II. This is Ian MacHorton's personal account of his ordeal in the Burmese jungle an inspiring saga of raw stubborn courage in the face of incredible odds. The true story of one man fighting the Japanese hostile terrain disease and physical exhaustion in one of the most extraordinary exploits of World War II. The original 1943 Chindit operation was supposed to be a coordinated plan with the field army43 but the Army's offensive into Burma was canceled. Wingate then persuaded Wavell to let him proceed into Burma anyway arguing the need to disrupt any Japanese attack on Sumprabum as well as to gauge the utility of long-range jungle penetration operations and Wavell eventually gave his consent to Operation Longcloth. Wingate set out from Imphal on 12 February 1943 with the Chindits organized into eight separate columns to cross the Chindwin river. The force met with initial success in putting one of the main railways in Burma out of action then Wingate led them deep into Burma and over the Irrawaddy River. However they found conditions very different from what their intelligence had led them to expect. The area was dry and inhospitable and criss-crossed by motor roads which the Japanese were able to use to good effect particularly by intercepting supply drops to the Chindits. They soon began to suffer severely from exhaustion and shortages of water and food. On 22 March Eastern Army HQ ordered Wingate to withdraw his units back to India. Bantam Books paperback