Wild in the hot blind earth

This story is about the experiences of some of the soldiers who endured the largely forgotten Allied campaign in Burma, modern Myanmar, during the last years of the Second World War. This theatre of war featured the broadest coalition of nations, from America, Britain, India, Nationalist China, the Spider Brigades of West Africa and the Gurkhas of Nepal all pitted against the ferocity of the Imperial Japanese army.

It traces a soldier's journey from the Aintree racetrack in Liverpool, via th...