In this new book, Survival in the Land of Dysentery: The World War II Experiences of a Red Cross Worker in India, Baroness Katharine Harris van Hogendorp tells of serving with the American Red Cross in World War II. Posted to a jungle base at Chakulia in India, the next two years provided some extraordinary experiences.She tells the moving story of a beautiful, young woman who possessed a great degree of caring and compassion, only to be forced to exist with images of seeing her name on a B-29 Superfortress and being surrounded by constant death and suffering.As a classically-trained opera singer, Katie brought good cheer, sustenance and entertainment to British and American troops while enduring heat, illness, pestilence and the dangers present at the China-Burma-India front.Katie recently reflected, Ever since I read the Arabian Nights, I had dreamed of being transported one day on a magic carpet, floating through space to a world of eternal beauty and enchantment. Maybe the closest I came to that experience was when I lived for two weeks on a houseboat in Kashmir, situated in the magnificent, snow-capped Himalaya Mountains. After eighteen months at our base in the jungles of India, another war-weary Red Cross worker, my friend Pat, and I managed to take some leave and get there.