Title:
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BURMA BOY
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By: |
Biyi Bandele |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1446419193 |
ISBN 13: |
9781446419199 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
31 July, 2013 |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. |
Synopsis: |
A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. But the Burmese jungle is a mud-riven, treacherous place, riddled with Japanese snipers, insanity and disease. Burma Boy is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War's most vicious battleground. It's also the moving story of a boy trying to live long enough to become a man. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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