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Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a minor correction, the author is actually Yvonne Vaz-Ezdani < yvonne....@gmail.com> and her book is almost sold out by now. I also think they're tales of hope and grit, how human beings survive when the going gets really tough, even if they didn't suspect that they have it in them to manage that. See http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Survivors-Isabelle-Vaz/dp/product-description/8190568248 On 16 October 2011 18:43, eric pinto <ericpin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you, Val and Freddie. > Caesar's dad was Surgeon General of Burma. His wife, Thelma, was > Anglo-Burman, and she contributed a chapter to Yvette's book. She died last > year. Home was the Castellino Co-op complex in Poona Camp. His Morris still > ran on the original engine, forty years off the line in England. Eric. > ------------------------------------- > My brother, Steven writes: > > ... Am sure Maj. Menezes and family( probably just the two boys) > were part of this exodus, that led them ultimately to Poona. I recall > him tell me some stories abt the trek, interesting in part but horrifying > for most ----\ >