The king's rifle
By: Biyi Bandele
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780061582660
Subjects: Campaigns; Child soldiers; World War, 1939-1945; Juvenile Participation; Black Soldiers; Children; Fiction
Description: The story chronicles the Chindits, a band of African soldiers enlisted by the British military and sent to Burma to fight the Japanese. Among them is Farabiti Banana, a 14-year-old Nigerian who becomes a soldier to follow the lead of his friends and hopes the military will make him a man. Once out of training, life becomes increasingly dangerous for Banana and his eight fellow Chindits, and by the novel's climax, he's become a man, but at a great cost.--From Publisher's Weekly.
Notes: "Previously published under the title Burma boy."