Burma My Father and the Forgotten Army

Apart from a few fragmentary stories Griff Rhys Joness father never talked about his war Yet as a medical officer to a West African division he travelled 15000 miles from Wales to Ghana and the jungles of Burma He and his men were part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese To understand their story Griff travels first to Ghana and then accompanied by 90yearold veteran Joshua he goes to jungles of Burma It is known as the forgotten war but Griff discovers how it transformed these West Africans from children of the British Empire into masters of their own destiny