Another Man's War by Barnaby Phillips, speaker at February 2016 meeting.

Richard Thomas has invited Barnaby Phillips, the author of the very well-reviewed "Another Man's War", to address the Literary Society.  He has agreed, and will be our speaker on 19 February 2016. Richard kindly provided the following introduction, which will be of particular interest to members of the Book Group who recently discussed Richard Flanagan’s book:  

“Another Man’s War is about the vital part played by colonial West African troops in Slim's campaign in 1944-45 to drive the Japanese out of Burma ("a forgotten army in a forgotten war").  It focuses on the astonishing and very moving story of one of these soldiers, Isaac Fadoyebo, whom Phillips got to know while he was the BBC Correspondent in W Africa.  I found it unputdownable, and it should form an interesting counterbalance to "The Narrow Road to the Far North".