First edition, first impression. Book produced to War Economy Standards. 206. [ii]pp, with map frontispiece and occasional line drawings in text. Orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine. 12mo. Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends, a few small and mild marks. Gift inscription, dated 1943, inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, rubbed all round edges, price clipped, a little toned and shelf worn.
Father and son flee the Axis powers in Burma during the second world war, along the Burma Road: the father, Rochester Wrekin was engineer responsible for the construction of a great part of the Burma Road and was therefore a valuable man to the China as guardian of their life line; and equally Axis powers continually watch for an opportunity to kill him.
