When the Leaves Start to Fall

This romantic wartime story relates what happens when a New England student leaves his girlfriend to take part in the war in the Far East. After training he arrives in Burma in the fall in 1944 having first had a strange dream that he will return the following year when the leaves start to fall! The meaning of this dream becomes apparent during his time there as he almost dies of malaria has a brief liaison with his nurse is captured by the Japanese spends many months in a prison camp working on building roads culminating against all the odds in a memorable trip from prison back to safety. Emaciated exhausted almost devoid of any strength he arrives back in America just as the first leaves start to fall.