Collins London 1st edition 1984. Hard cover dust wrapper 272pp. Dw a little slack with small chip on bottom front corner, now protected. Some foxing and browning on page edges else good-very good. O'Brien, an Australian pilot who had survived a full tour of bombing missions with Coastal Command, volunteered to work with the Chindits. Serving as a soldier with the 4/9th Gurkhas behind enemy lines in the remote and mountainous region between Burma and Yunnan, he experienced a form of fighting which contrasted strongly with what he had learned in the RAF.