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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Lovely example of this book. exlibris sticker in front. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Although every effort has been made to ensure that accounts are accurate it is certain that many incidents worth the telling have been omitted and a score of brave deeds left unsung. Since so many Officers and Men who served with the Battalion during this period and particularly during the early stages of the tour in Malaya have now either finished their service or are serving elsewhere this is unavoidable. Their comments and advice had they been available would have helped to make the story more complete. This story then is a recital of facts in the nature of a full diary. Such commentary as there is has been included so that the background against which events occurred may be the better understood. I would like to express my thanks to the Straits Times and the Singapore Standard for their assistance and permission to use some of their photographs in this book; also to Mr. James Patrick District Officer Tampin who advised me on the finer points of the Civil Administration. In addition to the more formal acknowledgments I would like to thank all those Officers N.C.Os. and Men of the Battalion and others who by comment and correction have assisted so greatly in this record. (SP)