The king's rifle

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Key item features

Title Context: The king's rifle
Primary Contributor: Biyi Bandele-Thomas
System ISBN Index: 9780061781834
Language Presentation: English (US Standard)
Page Manifest Extent: Standard Printing Edition Count pages

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.