The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephantassisted wartime rescue mission. In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, performed a series of heroic rescues in the hellish jungles of Japaneseoccupied Burma with the aid of twenty elephants. At the age of 53, Mackrell went into the green hell of the Chaukan Pass on the border of North Burma and Assam. Here, Mackrell and a team of elephant riders rescued Indian army soldiers, British civilians and their Indian servants, from the pursuing Japanese, directing the elephants through raging rivers, and territory infested with sand flies, mosquitoes and innumerable leeches. Those he saved were all on the point of death from starvation or fever that summer was spent in a fight against time. Now in Andrew Martins hands this tale of heroics is given the shape of a suspenseful adventure, a wartime rescue whose facts are the stuff of fiction. Flight By Elephant is a gripping chronicle of war and survival, starring everyones favourite animal the powerful, exotic and hugely loveable elephant.

Binding: Paperback;338 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 420.73 g; Dimensions: N/A

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