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      Burma Boy

      by Biyi Bandele-Thomas
      Published
      Jun 2008
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      A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. But the Burmese jungle is a mud-riven, treacherous place, riddled with Japanese snipers, insanity and disease. Burma Boy is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War's most vicious battleground. It's also the moving story of a boy trying to live long enough to become a man.

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      First Edition Jun 2008 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099488989 ISBN10 0099488981
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      Jan 2007 Random House ISBN13 9780224076821 ISBN10 0224076825
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      Jul 2013 Vintage ISBN13 9781446419199 ISBN10 1446419193
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