#xE2;#xAC;#xDC;I found myself, on one or two pages towards the close, caught in a choking emotion#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;the evidence is meticulously gathered and the writing so powerful that it turns a book about a battle into a book about human beings, their existence, their end#xE2;#xAC;" Guardian #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;With this electrifying and heart-rending tale BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane has catapulted himself into the top rank of our military historians#xE2;#xAC;" Daily Express #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;In his sweeping account of the battle in Kohima in 1944, Fergal Keane does justice to the memory of the men who fell and who survived#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;a vivid account which brings to life the brutality of that war#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;an engrossing narrative of ghastly battle#xE2;#xAC;" Independent #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;A profoundly tragic book by an eminent humanitarian#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;Fergal Keane is not a man for triumphalism#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;he is really writing a passionate elegy for all battles#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;it is a noble book that Keane has written#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;its grandeur lies in its essential vision #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; decent forgiving, pitying and always regretful#xE2;#xAC;" The Times #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Along with his war correspondent#xE2;#xAC;"s feel for action, Keane brings to the task an eye for detail and a gift for describing what it is like to be in a battle at the lowest level#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;although Generals may command, plot and plan, in the end the success or failure will rest on the courage, motivation, training and fortitude of ordinary men#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;#xE2;#xAC;Road of Bones#xE2;#xAC; captures this superlatively#xE2;#xAC;" Literary Review Praise for Fergal Keane: #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Keane#xE2;#xAC;"s real distinction was in his reporting talents, which as this book shows, are considerable#xE2;#xAC;" Evening Standard #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;His book is a memoir but it is so much more than that#xE2;#xAC;#xA6;a volume of the most exquisitely written and moving truth and honesty#xE2;#xAC;" TLS #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;A completely honest account of reporting conflict#xE2;#xAC;" Independent #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;An empowering story of triumph over adversity#xE2;#xAC;" Irish Times #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Profoundly honest#xE2;#xAC;" Observer.