Robert Lyman is widely regarded as one of Britain's most talented military historians, with fourteen highly praised books and numerous appearances on television and in documentaries. He was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst into the Light Infantry in 1982 and spent twenty years in the British Army.
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Flying the notorious 'hump route' between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double-agent po... SEE MORE