In The Shadow Of the Cotton Tree: A Diary of Second World War Sierra Leone

by Jack Rillie

"All the afternoon the air was sultry, not a breath stirred among the dry grasses. The vultures hung uneasily low over the roofs of our huts, and sat bunched up like brown evil fungi among the branches of the mango trees in the compound." Jack Rillie, Freetown, 3rd October 1940 "The diary and poems written by Jack Rillie in Sierra Leone, in 1940-41, give a candid, shocking expression of the terrible necessity of war, futility, valour, stripped of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905021135
• ISBN13: 9781905021130
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Mansion Field
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"