A factual, and highly personal account of the war in Burma, describing life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and eccentric Cumbrians The author, then aged nineteen, served in the last great land campaign of the war, when the 17th Black Cat division captured a strongpoint deep in Japanese territory and held it, spearheading the final assault in which the Japanese armies were torn apart Fearsome, sometimes appalling, often funny and always a disturbing reminder of how the world and its attitudes to soldiers and soldiering have changed