This was a fascinating book. It was the memoir of a Republic of China officer while he was with the broken ROC army at the end of the Chinese Civil War as it was pushed into the borderlands with Burma. It was very much about the people there and the difficulties they faced, but it also gave some idea of what they faced in military terms as well. I'd love to see a companion piece that showed what the battles looked like from the historical record, because the author tended to be in the dirt and could only relate what he heard or saw. Still, quite interesting.