Jean Costain is the young wife of a British intelligence officer garrisoned in Rangoon during the 2nd World War.The Japanese bombing of the city in 1942 finds British forces unprepared for war, and they soon fall back into northern Burma. Deprived of their protection, half a million members of the unpopular Indian community set out on the thousand-mile journey back to India.Unable to leave Burma by conventional routes Jean joins the exodus,...