In 1943, Bernard Markham, a young soldier and really only a boy, volunteers to fight with the Chindits, a special allied force flown into Burma to disrupt the seemingly unstoppable advance of the Imperial Japanese Army. He doesn't fully realise the enormity of what he has let himself in for, and although taking part in initial successes, within only a few weeks is captured by the enemy, interrogated and tortured. He manages to escape and make a perilous journey back to safety in British held India, but he is badly damaged, not only physically but emotionally, and in England after the conclusion of World War Two, he suffers a total breakdown. Despite all the ordeals he has gone through, he recuperates and turns it all around by dedicating the rest of his life to disadvantaged young people. In a sense, having lost his own youth to horrific conflict, he is determined to champion future youth. Of Love and Sanity is the story of a triumph of the human spirit, accomplished on the back of unimaginable suffering.
| Author: Ian Nimmo White |
| Publisher: Petrel Publications |
| Publication Date: Apr 15, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 332 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 095384451X |
| ISBN-13: 9780953844517 |
