The War in Malaya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War in Malaya write by Arthur Ernest Percival. This book was released on 1949. The War in Malaya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Japanese Occupation of Malaya write by Paul H. Kratoska. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan attacked British-ruled Malaya on 8 December 1941 as part of a wave of military actions that toppled the British, Dutch and American colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. Within seventy days, the conquest of Malaya was complete, and British forces in Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942. The three and a half years of Japanese rule are generally considered to mark a profound transition in the history of the Malay peninsula, but little is known about this period. This book uses the limited administrative papers that survived in Malaya, oral sources, and accounts written by Japanese officers involved in the Malayan campaign to flesh out the story.
The War of the Running Dogs
The War of the Running Dogs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War of the Running Dogs write by Noel Barber. This book was released on 1971. The War of the Running Dogs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fall of Malaya and Singapore write by Jon Diamond. This book was released on 2015-05-30. The Fall of Malaya and Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita. British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and tactical superiority. Morale was badly affected by the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse to Japanese aircraft on 19 December as they sought out enemy shipping. Panic set in as military and civilians withdrew south to Singapore. Thought to be an impregnable fortress, its defences against land attacks were shockingly deficient. General Percival's leadership was at best uninspired and at worst incompetent. Once the Allied troops withdrew to Singapore it was only a matter of time before surrender became inevitable. To make matters worse reinforcements arrived but only in time to be made POWs. The whole catastrophe is brilliantly described in this highly illustrated book.
The Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation
The Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation write by Robert Jackson. This book was released on 2011-05-18. The Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The struggle with Communist terrorists in Malaya known as The Emergency became a textbook example of how to fight a guerrilla war, based on political as much as military means. This book deals with both the campaign fought by British, Commonwealth and other security forces in Malaya against Communist insurgents, between 1948 and 1960, and also the security action in North Borneo during the period of Confrontation with Indonesia from 1962 to 1966. Both campaigns provided invaluable experience in the development of anti-guerrilla tactics, and are relevant to the conduct of similar actions which have been fought against insurgent elements since then. The book written with the full co-operation of various departments of the UK Ministry of Defence contains material that untilrecently remained classified.This is the first full study to cover the role of airpower in these conflicts. It will be of relevance to students at military colleges, and those studying military history, as well as having a more general appeal, particularly to those servicemen and women who were involved in both campaigns.
