Look down in Mercy — Walter Baxter

Condition : Good.
Heinemann, 1952, Vintage Hardback – Historical Fiction – 288pp.

A young officer’s disintegration in the chaos of the retreat from Burma during the Japese attack and how he survives an existence without faith. It has to be one of the best books about the second world war, set largely in Burma before shifting to India.

Baxter’s first novel, Look Down in Mercy, was published to widespread acclaim in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and he was immediately hailed as a young writer of immense talent and promise.

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