- Hardcover: 284 pages
- Publisher: Collins; First Edition edition (1971)
- ISBN-10: 0002119323
- ISBN-13: 978-0002119320
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday Express
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Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence - but on British, not on Chinese or Communist terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates, the policemen, the generals and the soldiers, the Malays, Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country, all fighting an astute, ruthless, and well organized enemy.
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Above all else, and from the earliest moments of history, one primordial force has dominated the life of every man, woman and child in Malaya - the gentle Malays themselves, the industrious Chinese, the listless Indians, the perspiring British alike. Read the first page
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Above all else, and from the earliest moments of history, one primordial force has dominated the life of every man, woman and child in Malaya - the gentle Malays themselves, the industrious Chinese, the listless Indians, the perspiring British alike. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book very interesting. I read it on holiday and finished it within a 24 hour period. The writer has a readable style and avoids boring one with too much detail. This was a successful counter insurgency operation, which is still informing tactics today in dealing with similar problems. Lessons learned /tactics applied include the importance of good intelligence and police work, which were replicated in Northern Ireland. I didn't know that some insurgents were paid cash to surrender and bring in others. It appears that they are trying this in Afghanistan.
I found this book very interesting. I read it on holiday and finished it within a 24 hour period. The writer has a readable style and avoids boring one with too much detail. This was a successful counter insurgency operation, which is still informing tactics today in dealing with similar problems. Lessons learned /tactics applied include the importance of good intelligence and police work, which were replicated in Northern Ireland. I didn't know that some insurgents were paid cash to surrender and bring in others. It appears that they are trying this in Afghanistan.
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I purchased this book for my father's 80th birthday, he served in the jungle fighting the communist insurgents during 1949-52. He is delighted with this book and says that it is very factual.
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I bought this for my Dad who was in the Malayan Emergency as a very young man. He is enjoying reading the book which he feels is an accurate portrayal of the war. It is not glamorised or exagerated, which is what he doesn't like about most books on this topic. He is enjoying it so in my view it was money well spent.
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fiction masquerading as fact
Although this account has come to be regarded as THE definitive story of the Malayan Emergency, it contains so many errors of fact as to make it more a work of fiction than... Read more
Published 4 months ago by tuan kichil
A GREAT OVERSIGHT.WHERE WERE THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALND TROOPS IN...
Having served in both Malaya and Malaysia.I found this book factual,lively and simplistic but well written Its a good read,and really moves the reader on at a fast clip...However. Read more
Published 11 months ago by S. Beaumaris
The Malayan Emergency
As a regular Army officer who took part in the fight against the Communists terrorists in Malaya, I found this book extremely readable and containing just the right amount of... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Strephon
The War of the Running Dogs
This book is a interesting and enlightening read. From a purely entertaiment point of view its a like reading a real life version of a John Buchan story. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Michael
The War of the Running Dogs
A friend of mine served in this crisis in Malaya during the mid fifties....so I bought him this book..he probably would not want to be reminded of this period in his life.. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. Brian Everitt
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