The jungle is silent. I'm asleep, cocooned in a mosquito net on the floor of a wooden pagoda. Beneath me lies a steep hill which conceals a secret frontline hospital in Myanmar. "We have ...

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

To the list of World War II specialists in close combat—Edson’s and Carlson’s Marine Raiders, British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate’s Raiders, Mountbatten’s Commandos, U.S. Army Rangers ...