Word: burma
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Look Down in Mercy, by Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army captain in Burma (TIME, March...
Look Down in Mercy, by Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army captain in Burma (TIME, March...
Look Down in Mercy, Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army cap tain in Burma (TIME, March...
Last year, the school trained 50 ECA physicians, public health nurses, salutary engineers, and other specialists for work they are now doing in Burma, Indonesia, and Indo-China. Dr. Hyde has done public health work in the Middle East and in the Balkans...
Himself a company commander of a British outfit in the early Burma fighting, Author Baxter writes with authority and unblinking candor. His book is not for the squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...