The Road Past Mandalay Author:John Masters In this book, the story of war in the desert and in the jungles of Burma during World War II, my purpose is to tell how a professional soldier of the old Indian Army reached some sort of maturity both as a soldier and as a man. Some parts of the story are very unpleasant - so was the war it records; others are almost painfully personal - but th... more »is is not a battle diary, this is the story of one man's life. Of death and love I cannot say less with honesty or more with propriety.« less