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ELEPHANT'S WORK (277 pp.)-E C. Bentley-Knopf ($2.75).
That old tale about wild elephants going off alone to die in inaccessible "elephant graveyards" is one that Williams can refute from observation. What really happens, at least in Burma: somewhere between an elephant's 70th and 80th years, his big, coconut-size heart becomes as worn-out as...
Then, "one sweltering hot evening in late May ... he hears a mighty storm raging ten miles away in the hills and knows the rains have broken." A wall of brown, log-choked water bears down on him. "He staggers and falls, but the groan he gives is drowned by peals...
After Hannibal. Teak (for the decks of combat ships, etc.) had a high priority in World War II. It was Elephant Bill Williams' job to get it out. Later, on active duty as a lieutenant colonel, he used the animals to haul bridge timbers and supplies, hoist bogged-down...
When the Japs threatened northwest Burma early in 1944, Williams was told to lead his 45 elephants out any way he could. His story of how he coaxed them, their riders, and a small army of hungry refugees over more than 100 miles of plains and mountain wilderness between Kan...