The Sum of Things Author:David Wilson An account of episodes in the life of a young Officer who joined a Highland Regiment in 1936 and served until 1970 all over the world in very different places and conditions. The first three chapters deal with his passage to India and service in the Waziristan Campaign of 1936/37, including the ascent of Iblanke and the capture of the Sham Plain... more » on Coronation Day 1937. An account of the Japanese Invasion, the Retreat over the Causeway, the fighting on Singapore Island, and the evacuation to Java and subsequently India. The battle of Kohima in Burma, where for 48 hours, at the age of 28, the author found himself in command of 6 Infantry Brigade. Command of 1st Argylls in Jerusalem and the destruction of the King David Hotel. Company Commander from August 1950 to April 1951 in the Korean War, from Pusan to within 30 miles of the Manchurian Border, and nearly all the way back again. Eighteen months at SHAPE as Military Assistant to Field Marshal Montgomery followed by two years in Berlin as Chief of BRIXMIS, the organisation that monitored the Russian and East German Armies. A final tour, two years in the UN Armistice Commission in Korea when the capture of the USS Pueblo and the raid on the Korean president's palace hit the world headlines.« less