Tea, Love and War - Searching for English Roots in Assam Mitchell DavidPaperback
Tea, Love and War - Searching for English Roots in Assam Mitchell DavidPaperback The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in…
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Tea, Love and War - Searching for English Roots in Assam Mitchell DavidPaperback
The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in suburban England. Stuart, working on a tea estate in the jungles of Assam, fathers a child by a teenage native woman. It is split into three parts: Stuart and Mary's story, David's story, and Ann's story.
When war breaks out, Stuart joins the Indian army, trains as a sapper and is posted to Malaya, blowing bridges in the desperate rearguard action against the Japanese invasion. Stuart's letters to his family in pre-war England vividly describe his life as a planter in colonial India but conceal his secret love life. Back in wartime England, his sister Mary marries Stuart's best friend, Arthur, who decides to train as an army