Endeavour, free
Desperate Journey by
Francis Clifford
On 20th April 1942, Captain Thompson received word that the defensive line held by their Chinese allies had broken; orders or no orders, he knew they had to move.
Separated from the rest of the Burma Army and weary from months of continuous fighting retreats, the survivors of his Karen Company began their long walk northwards.
When Fort Hertz finally came into view in August, the journey of nine hundred miles and untold maladies had left many of them little more than walking skeletons.
Written in 1944, first published in 1979 by Hodder and Stoughton
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Francis Clifford was the pen-name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson D.S.O. (1917-1975) who, as an officer of the Burma Rifles, served with distinction during World War II. Going on to write critically acclaimed thrillers, he was referred to as the “thinking man’s Ian Fleming” by the Daily Telegraph and was awarded both the Crime Writers’ Association’s Silver Dagger and the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allen Poe Award twice in his literary career.