Malayan spymaster memoirs of a rubber planter, bandit fighter, and spy
A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman's covert Stay Behind Party in Japanese-occupied Malaya, a member of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Monsoon
2013
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| Edition: | 3rd (update) ed. |
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| Summary: | A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman's covert Stay Behind Party in Japanese-occupied Malaya, a member of the Secret Intelligence Service, and he formed the first Home Guard unit in Malaya during the Emergency. |
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| Physical Description: | 424 p. [16] p. of plates ill., maps 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9789810854423 9789814358309 (ebk) |