In Mr Phillips own words: In my talk to the Britain-Burma Society Ill outline the extraordinary human drama that is at the heart of my book Another Mans War - how one badly injured Nigerian soldier

was rescued by Muslim rice-farmers on the banks of the

Kaladan River in 1944, who then hid him from the

Japanese for 9 months. Ill explain how this Nigerian soldier, Isaac Fadoyebo, became my friend in his old

age in Lagos, and how, in 2011, I went to Burma to try

and find the family that had saved him 67 years earlier.

Through Isaacs story Ill look at the role played by African soldiers in Burma during the Second World

War. They numbered 100,000 and they took part in

some of the fiercest fighting of the Arakan Campaign,

but they have been largely forgotten. Ill also discuss how the Muslim (Rohingya) population supported the British, whilst the Buddhist population tended to support the

Japanese. I will argue that its impossible to understand the problems in Rakhine State today without an appreciation of what happened there during the early 1940s.

I studied history at Oxford and reported from Africa for the BBC for 15 years. Im now a Senior Correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV. Another Mans War is my first book. The Telegraph says it ranks alongside classics of wartime literature and

The Spectator said it was an extraordinary story, very well told.

Copies of the book, signed by Mr Philiips, will be available for sale during the evening.

THE BRITAIN BURMA SOCIETY invites members and their guests to a presentation

by Barnaby Phillips on Tuesday 25

th November 2014, 7.00 p.m. onwards

at the Medical Society of London,

11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W1G 9EB.

NEXT MEETING: Dr Saul Zadka will be talking about The Jews in Burma on Tuesday 24th February 2015.

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Daw Tin Tin Sann, Hon Treasurer, 15,Hillfield Mansions, London

NW3 4QR

Barbara Brown Membership Secretary HAKA 202 Croham Valley Road South Croydon

Surrey CR2 7RB

If you wish to attend this event on Tuesday 25th

November, please return this slip to Barbara Brown, or

email her on

minnthameebrown@secretary.net

The deadline for bookings is Monday 24th November.

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Another Mans War The Story of a Burma Boy in Britains Forgotten African Army

ADMISSION 6.00 (3.00 for students) PAY AT THE DOOR Samosas and coffee from 7.00 p.m. onwards. Presentation begins at 7.30 p.m.

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Another Mans War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britains Forgotten African Army

By Barnaby Phillips Although there are hundreds of books on the Burma campaign of World War 2, very

few recognise the role of soldiers from Britains West African colonies who fought in

the green hell of Burmas jungles. The remarkable story of Isaac Fadoyebo, a young

Nigerian who in 1944 survived, badly wounded, for 9 months behind enemy lines and

of the brave family which sheltered him, was uncovered by tonights (November

2014) BBS speaker, Barnaby Phillips, a former BBC Africa correspondent and now a

senior Al-Jazeera correspondent. Barnaby was inspired not only to make an award-

winning documentary about Isaac, but to research further and to write this gripping

study of the war fought in Burma by Africas forgotten soldiers, and in the process to

reassess the legacy of British colonialism.

Published by OneWorld Publications, September 2014. 366 pages; hardback.

Copies will be on sale at the meeting.

Burma Boy

By Biyi Bandele This war novel by the son of a

Nigerian veteran of the Burma

campaign could make good

companion reading for Phillipss

book (see previous); full of humour

and drama, a story of young men

fighting they know not why in a

war thousands of miles from home.

Published in hardback by

Jonathon Cape, 2007; copies of

the paperback edition of 2008

are still available from Amazon

for 8.99.