The Burma Legacy
“The way he saw it, the PM had told SIS to jump and the buck had been passed to Waddell, who’d put his name in the frame. Simple as that. Days, weeks of effort were about to be wasted. Then Peregrine Harrison would reappear, asking why all the fuss.
The cold weather was beginning to get to him. The thought of prowling around the windswept flatlands of Cambridgeshire looking for Harrison’s Bordhill community did not appeal. Spending the next couple of days in bed with Julie did.
When he arrived a...t the flat he browsed through the file Waddell had given him, finding most of the contents merely duplicated what he’d learned at lunch. Then he opened Harrison’s book again, A Jungle Path to Hell, and began reading it more seriously.
The opening chapter was written in the clipped style of a previous age, telling of a school leaver’s excitement about joining the army in the late summer of 1940. Despite the recent and salutary lesson of Dunkirk, the war had still been an adventure to him.MoreLess
The cold weather was beginning to get to him. The thought of prowling around the windswept flatlands of Cambridgeshire looking for Harrison’s Bordhill community did not appeal. Spending the next couple of days in bed with Julie did.
When he arrived a...t the flat he browsed through the file Waddell had given him, finding most of the contents merely duplicated what he’d learned at lunch. Then he opened Harrison’s book again, A Jungle Path to Hell, and began reading it more seriously.
The opening chapter was written in the clipped style of a previous age, telling of a school leaver’s excitement about joining the army in the late summer of 1940. Despite the recent and salutary lesson of Dunkirk, the war had still been an adventure to him.MoreLess
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