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BOYLE, Patrick, & Jon Musgrave-Wood.
Jungle, Jungle, little Chindit.
With a Foreword by Major-General W. D. A. Lentaigne.
First edition. This copy signed by Boyle on the half-title, and inscribed verso of the front free endpaper; "To Anne from Pat, with half the author's compliments. Fri. xiii - ix- MCMXLVI." Classic wartime humour from the Burma Campaign; "In both World Wars the German General Staff has been perplexed by the British sense of humour which has always been strongest in adversity. So much so that in seeking a reason why the British soldier continues to fight when defeat and annihilation are apparently inevitable they have reached the conclusion that it is his sense of humour that has saved the day … The fighting in Burma has put as great a strain on the British soldier as any other campaign in WWII. It has not however, defeated his ability to crack a joke …" (from "Joe" Lentaigne's foreword). The tone is best summed up by the cartoon to the jacket showing two drenched Chindits in a torrential downpour: "When all this is over I suppose some ape will write a book about it and try to make out it was funny."
Quarto. Original ecru cloth, title in blue to the spine and small illustration to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Numerous illustrations to the text, maps to the endpapers. A little bubbled on the boards and bumped at the corners, light toning, occasional foxing, a very good copy in a slightly rubbed jacket lacking a few small pieces, loss of a few letters at the head of the spine.
