- ID
- cx195
- Title
- It Isn’t in the Book
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 8
- Word Count
- 3100
- Publisher
- The Statesman
- Publication Year
- 1945
- Document Types
- Eads, Additions to
- Added since 2020
- Topics
- War, Burma
Bates writes of unique challenges — geographical, climatic, and medical — of the Burma campaign that render it 'unorthodox' and therefore 'not in the book' of normal military reporting.
He writes in the hope that soldiers at the Burmese front 'fighting, all the time, in a bitter, heat scourged malaria-scourged, heart-breaking hell' will not be forgotten.
One of a number of typescripts, thought to be unpublished, found in a private collection, probably written while posted to Burma in 1945, (the others being Angel of Mercy; B.29 in Distress on Fire; and Burma Air, Dusty Answer)
An article in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer quotes extensively from the essay, citing publication in The Statesman (Calcutta, July 10, 1945); no copy has yet been located.
