{"product_id":"the-brave-shall-inherit-the-earth-a-personal-account-of-battles-against-the-japanese-and-then-dacoits-in-burma-between-1944-1947","title":"BRAVE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Brave Shall Inherit the Earth is the motto of the Rajputana Rifles, the oldest rifle regiment in the pre-World-War-Two Indian Army. It is a fitting epitaph to this remarkable young officer who commanded the mortar platoon in 3\/6\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Rajputana Rifles during the 14\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Army’s invasion of Burma in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenis O’Leary came from a family of soldiers; his father was also RajRif.  Just out of officer training, a practicing Catholic, handsome, athletic, twenty years old, Denis joined 3\/6\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Rajputana Rifles on the eve of Field Marshal Slim’s invasion of Burma in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the story of his Regiment in that Homeric engagement.  It is also about the close friendships formed in war between a British officer and his Rajput and Punjabi ‘Mussalman’ soldiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Regiment ‘had been fortunate in our introduction to war. It had been a gradual process.’ Luckily Denis learnt quickly and by the time he came to his Kurukshetra – a decisive battle to hold Pear Hill against suicidal Japanese attacks during the Irrawaddy crossings – his mettle had been tested and forged. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring this battle, in which he won his first Military Cross, he was badly wounded by shrapnel and evacuated back to India for the rest of the war, only re-joining his beloved battalion in pre-Independence Burma, which this account also covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDenis O’Leary was a life-long soldier, he is a modest historian, he writes simply but eloquently.  There are few books so hauntingly beautiful about something so savage as war.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40183138746451,"sku":"","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781839521744_afc1dc53-3d20-42ab-8f63-9f7aa1c82b7a.jpg?v=1769499037","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-brave-shall-inherit-the-earth-a-personal-account-of-battles-against-the-japanese-and-then-dacoits-in-burma-between-1944-1947","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}