{"product_id":"9781942728115","title":"Lost in Burma: \"Queenie\" and 50 other War Poems","description":"From the Burma Road to Kunming, China to Shanghai, a 20-year old US Army Sergeant experiences the perils and pleasures that can come only from the Orient---especially during a World War---from November 1944 to November 1945.\u003cbr\u003eTwo of the 54 poems have been published. \"The Five and Dime\", was featured in a newspaper's Sunday Supplement, and \"Cadillac Kate\" was selected for a well known collection of poems a few years back.\u003cbr\u003eExperience the War through a young soldier's eyes. From the people he met and the women he loved, to the hospitals, nurses and more.\u003cbr\u003eI was lying in bed in a Kunming tent\u003cbr\u003eMy nurse was a Burmese beauty;\u003cbr\u003eShe said, \"You really velly sick.\"\u003cbr\u003eI said, \"and you really are some cutie!\"\u003cp\u003eThere's a guy in the next bed,\u003cbr\u003eSays, \"It's called lack-a-nookie.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe nurse giggled a bit, and then asked,\u003cbr\u003e\"You guys wan some milk, and maybe a cookie?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The doctor,\" she said, \"he 'dink mararia.\u003cbr\u003eI tell him, I 'don dink so.\u003cbr\u003eI see whole bunch in India,\u003cbr\u003eBut here in China, I dink No\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will cry a little, laugh a lot and wonder why you never heard of the Yunan Province where opium was legal, the Chinese generals hated each other, and Shanghai was the only port in the world that took in Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, etc. And what the city was like a few weeks after WW2 ended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spider Books Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040594444528,"sku":"9781942728115","price":9.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942728115_p0.jpg?v=1763766062","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942728115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}