title: The Marine from Mandalay
author:  James Leasor 
description: This is the true story of a Royal Marine wounded by shrapnel in Mandalay who undergoes a long solitary march to flee the Japanese and finds his way back through India to Britain. On his way he has many encounters and adventures and helps British and Indian refugees.
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  ## CORELLIAN ENGINEERING CORPORATION  
  ORBITAL ASSEMBLY FACILITY 7  
  60 YEARS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF YAVIN
  
  
  WITH HIS SHIFT WINDING DOWN, SOLY KANTT'S GAZE DRIFTED lazily between the
  chrono display mounted on the wall and a news feed running on the HoloNet. A
  tie score in last night's shock-ball match between Kuat and Commenor, and
  strife among some spacefaring folk known as Mandalorians. A lanky human with a
  family on Corellia and ten years on the job, Kantt had his soft hands clasped
  behind his head and his feet raised with ankles crossed on the console that
  constituted his private domain at CEC, Orbital 7. A holozine was opened in his
  lap and a partially filled container of cold caf stood with two empties in the
  chair's cup holders. Beyond the transparisteel pane that crowned the gleaming
  monitoring deck moved a steady stream of YT-1300 freighters fresh off the
  assembly line, though not yet painted, and shepherded by a flock of guidan