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Look Down in Mercy, by Walter Baxter. A tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army captain in Burma (TIME, March...
Look Down in Mercy, by Walter Baxter. A tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army captain in Burma (TIME, March...
...months of 1942, had just turned over to Canada the 1,221 miles from the starting point at Dawson Creek, B.C. to the Alaska border. The headline writer, like most Americans who gave the matter any thought, assumed that the Alcan-like its famed World War II counterparts, the Burma and Ledo Roads-was purely a product of military emergency, with no peacetime future...
Look Down in Mercy, by Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army captain in Burma (TIME, March...
...leader of the mission is U. Kaung, Director of Public Instruction for the Burmese Government. Kaung said that Burma is just beginning to get back to normal after being almost totally destroyed by the Japanese during the war. "Our books were burned and our instruments were destroyed," he said. "We had to start from scratch...