Barbara Hawkins
ASIN: B00MYJHFFS
Publisher: Barbara Hawkins
Pages: 336
Picture India and Burma in 1942: with unexplored jungles, Himalayan Mountains, Naga headhunters, and a young man looking for adventure. Instead of a fighting position, Harry Flynn is sent to WWII’s Forgotten Front in the China-Burma-India Theater as an ordinary supply officer. There, the military’s ‘win at all cost’ mentality is killing a man a mile. Behind the Forgotten Front is not another ‘boy goes to war’ tale; instead, it’s about Harry Flynn’s struggle with himself as he helped an African-American regiment build the ‘road to nowhere’ through Japanese-occupied Burma. Later, he became a combatant in America’s first guerrilla-supported units, Merrill’s Marauders and then the Mars Task Force. Through the unbreakable bonds of friendship on the battlefield, he overcomes the smell of fear, weight of loneliness, and the enemy. This book’s not about heroes but about people; soldiers who ...