{"product_id":"9780099488989-burma-boy","title":"Burma Boy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurma Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War's most vicious battleground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. But the Burmese jungle is a mud-riven, treacherous place, riddled with Japanese snipers, insanity and disease. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurma Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War's most vicious battleground. It's also the moving story of a boy trying to live long enough to become a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943023947873,"sku":"9780099488989","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32336046.jpg?v=1737187104","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099488989-burma-boy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}