In the middle of a hundred thousand square miles of East African bush, a British regiment stands within a ring of barbed wire. Ordered not to respond to provocation, it holds its ground & its fire while terrorist drums sound through the night, sentries are speared in the dark, peaceful farmers & missionaries are slaughtered in their beds. This is a story of fighting men who give up because they are not allowed to fight, a story of mutiny, desertion & escape through hostile territory