From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle and Beyond: A World War II memoir by Brian Hennessy

One man's memoir of World War II, which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima.

'I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone.' --Brian Hennessy

Brian immigrated to New Zealand after the war and lived there until his death aged ninety-two, but he never forgot his extraordinary war adventures.

Born in Germany to English parents, he came from a...