Burnett of Borneo

'From a host of private papers and previously unpublished sources, Rupert Litherland has produced the first biography of one of the Brigade of Gurkhas' great characters - General Bunny Burnett. Promoted against all the odds, Bunny was an unconventional soldier with an uncanny knack of predicting what the enemy would do next. He often said that he spent his life in the company of Mongolian mercenaries; he loved and was loved by his Gurkhas and while utterly uncaring about his own life, was a...