Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1954. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Lovely copy.

About the book >.>.> British troops have gone through far worse ordeals in Malaya than their predecessors did in the jungles of Burma; Gurkha warriors have enhanced their reputations as jungle fighters; young Malay soldiers have asked only to be well led to show their prowess in the field; the police in the forefront from the very beginning have done an exceptional job in their unaccustomed r?le. It has not been possible of course to relate every gallant episode by every battalion or each group of policemen or to tell of all fine work by individuals -such as that of the engine-drivers who kept the Malayan railways running in spite of derailments and other acts of sabotage. The canvas of the Malayan war is a tremendous one and my difficulty has been to select the highlights and the murky and deep black patches to give a fair picture. If I succeed in giving readers a good impression of what the war is all about how it reached heights and dropped to depths and how it clarified the problems that confront a country which craves only for peace so that it can build itself up to become the most progressive in South-east Asia and receive independence in a tranquil atmosphere internally then I shall be satisfied. I feel that too little is known in Great Britain and the United States of this war which closely affects those two countries. (SP)