Review of Elephant Company

By Vicki Constantine Croke

The story of “Elephant Bill”

 James Howard Williams, who arrived in

Colonial Burma in 1920, a young veteran from

WWI who went to work for a British teak company

And rose from “forest man” to manage the elephants,

 who logged the teak and the great Bandoola who

would become Billy’s most passionate idol.

The story culminates in a life threatening trek

and the great Bandoola leading the elephants

over a mountain to safety from the WW ll war zone,

the Japanese nipping at their heels.

Elephant Bill was awarded top military honors

and the praise of renowned field marshal, Sir

William Slim.

The book was, as promised, a page turner that

I could not put down. Gripping as any true life 

story I have ever read.

Raintreepoet reporting January 2017