This book, _The Road Past Mandalay,_ tells of experiences shared with scores of millions, not yet middle-aged, who have fought in war, have loved, have known separation and discomfort and danger. I think most people read _Bugles and a Tiger_ for its depiction of a strange and rather romantic kind of life led by a very few. There is another difference than that of time between this and the earlier volume. Of death and love I cannot say less with honesty or more with propriety.
Some parts of the story are very unpleasant-so was the war it records others are almost painfully personal-but this is not a battle diary this is the story of one man's life. Its purpose is to tell the story of how a professional officer of the old Indian Army reached some sort of maturity both as a soldier and a man. In the course of the story I hope to have given an idea of what India was like in those last twilit days of the Indian Empire, and something more than a tourist's view of some of the people who lived there." _The Road Past Mandalay_ carries the narrative through to the end of the Second World War. is to tell the story of how a schoolboy became a professional soldier of the old Indian Army. John Masters The Road Past Mandalay A Personal Narrative "A blessed companion is a book" -JERROLD FOREWORD In the foreword to the first volume of my autobiography, _Bugles and a Tiger,_ I wrote-"The purpose of this book.
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