Contemporary Review
'The author mingles family memories with historical insight to explore a corner of Empire often ignored by modern writers'
Guards Magazine
'Margaret Shennan ... succeeds in this ambitious project quite brilliantly ... This book is highly recommended'
Guards Magazine
'Margaret Shennan ... succeeds in this ambitious project quite brilliantly ... This book is highly recommended'
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Product Description
Through memoirs, letters and interviews this text chronicles events and explores the anomalies and conflicts of the British rule in Malaysia from 1880 to 1960.
About the Author
Margaret Shennan was born in Kuching, Borneo (now East Malaysia), was brought up in Province Wellesley and went to school in the Cameron Highlands. She is a prize-winning historian and writer, and one of her first books was her childhood autobiography Missee. She lives in Lancaster.
