Burma Memories WWII
- ISBN-10
- 1312625503
- ISBN-13
- 9781312625501
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-01
- Publisher
- Lulu.com
- Author
- Sandra Campagnac-Carney
Description
Short stories of Anglo-Burmese and others who bore the brunt of abandonment during WWII, as the British, unprepared for the onslaught of the Japanese abandoned them in WWII Burma. Facing unimaginable hardship, they faced the woes of war, many of them dying without any help.
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