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By: Holder R. W.
Price: $44.00
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet KL: 2005
Edition: 1st English
Seller ID: 2016020
This is the story of a British artillery regiment sent to Ipoh in Malaya after the second world war to establish post war conditions. Led by their young commanding officer, soldiers who in civilian life were surveyors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, shopkeepers, accountants and students succeeded with the help of local people in carrying out their unconventional tasks, often using means which were equally unconventional. View more info
By: Holder R.W.
Price: $79.00
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet KL: 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012256
A gripping chronicle of one man's survival in a period of chaos and deprivation, before the post war progress of Malaysia towards independence and a new era. View more info
By: Lunt James
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Macdonald, London: 1981
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012424
A first hand account of frontier soldiering in war and peace in the 20th century. An account which recalls the experiences of officers and NCO's seconded from the British Army to serve on loan to such locally enlisted forces as the Iraq Levies, the King's African Rifles, the Sudan Defence Force and the Burma Rifles. Includes many b/w photographs supporting the text. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press, USA: 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012197
As a young Royal Air Force technician stationed in Malaya in 1941, Peter Shepherd was ordered on a clandestine mission to Japanese occuped Indo China where he heard about a Japanese naval task force secretly on its way to Hawaii to annihilate the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. He also learned of Japan's plan to simultaneously decimate Royal Air Force installations throughout Malaya and Singapore Island.Shepherd tells his compelling story as he experienced it, with ... View more info