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The forgotten flank of the forgotten corps of the Forgotten Army

A review of Another Man’s War, by Barnaby Phillips. A book about courage and friendship that transcends time, distance and race

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

Another Man’s War Barnaby Phillips

One World, pp.313, £20, ISBN: 9781780745220

The British who fought in Burma became known as the ‘Forgotten Army’ because this was a neglected theatre of the second world war. Barnaby Phillips’s tale is about the African forces fighting across this green hell — ‘the forgotten flank of the forgotten corps of the Forgotten Army’.

At the age of 16 Isaac Fadoyebo left his village in colonial Nigeria and joined Britain’s call for recruits in the war.

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