John Masters
John Masters was commissioned into the Gurkha Rifles on the eve of the Second World War and rose to command one of the Chindit columns fighting behind the lines against the Japanese in Burma. He left the Army after the war to pursue a very profitable career as a novelist.
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Bugles and a Tiger
The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before…
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The Road Past Mandalay
The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of…