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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Singapore
Monsoon
2013
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| Edition: | 3rd (update) ed. |
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| 300 | |a 424 p. [16] p. of plates |b ill., maps |c 20 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Landfall in Malaya (March 1930) -- Creeping in Johore (April 1930 - December 1930) -- Sojourn in Sumatra (January 1931 - December 1932) -- Kedah Days (January 1933 - April 1934) -- Johore Again (August 1934 - February 1935) -- Marriage & Managership (July 1935 - May 1936) -- Kamuning Estate (May 1936 - December 1941)-- Retreat (December 1941) -- Stay Behind Party (January 1942 - February 1942) -- Escape (Mid-February 1942 - Mid-March 1942) -- Marking Time (April 1942 - July 1942) -- V Force (August 1942 - February 1943) -- ISLD (March 1943 - April 1944)-- Home (April 1944 - July 1944) -- Command (August 1944 - December 1945) -- Kamuning Again (December 1945 - September 1947) -- Bandits (September 1947 - January 1951) -- Palm Oil (January 1951 - September 1951)-- Disaster (September 1951 - September 1952) -- Home (October 1952 - December 1955) | |
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