Just got back from a trip round Myanmar (Burma). Took John Masters' "Bugles and a Tiger" and "The Road Past Mandalay" already mentioned in this thread.
The day after I had been reading of him and his boss standing on Mandalay Hill looking down on the Jap emplacements, I was standing on the hill doing the same thing (no emplacements any more).
I told our guide who led me to a plaque on a pillar commemorating the men of the 4th Gurkha Rifles who took the hill!
(Later went via Thailand to the Bridge over the River Kwai and the CWGC cemetery where it was very dusty in the air and poppy crosses were left)