Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Vantage Press
Published:
1994
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16010475309
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Very good in Very good jacket. xv, [3], 233, [5] pages. Illustrations. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Includes A Few Facts about the West Yorkshire Regiment, Acknowledgments, and Foreword. Topics covered include The Patrol, Jungle Training, Settling In, The Cameron Highlands, Fort Top, Routine at the Fort, Bukit Berembun, Contact, Another Chance, The Hunter Takes Charge, The Identification, The Expert, and an Epilogue. Also includes a Glossary, and Two Appendices: Appendix A. Bukit Berembun Patrol Report, and Appendix B. Letter Given to Colonel Trimmer. What Vietnam was to the Americans and French, the ten-year conflict in Malaya, which began in 1948, was to the British. Sanderson describes the difficulties of conducting a guerrilla war in a theater where jungle fatigue, malaria, dysentery, damp smelly clothing, and the misery of boots that after a week rotted to bits, conspired to produce conditions of extreme stress. The author also suggests that politicians lack awareness that success in such a war is of a purely transitory nature. Seldom does it bring about a permanent solution. The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (15th Foot) to form the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire which was, on 6 June 2006, amalgamated with the Green Howards and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) to form the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot). The Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought in the Federation of Malaya from 1948 until 1960. The conflict was between Commonwealth armed forces and pro independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the military wing of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). The war was fought over attempts by communist forces to gain independence for Malaya from the British Empire and to establish a socialist economy. The fighting spanned both the colonial period and the creation of an independent Malaya (1957). Although it was referred to as "The Emergency" by colonial authorities, the MNLA referred to it as the "Anti-British National Liberation War". The conflict was called an "Emergency" by the British for insurance purposes, as London-based insurers would not have paid out in instances of civil wars. In June 1948 the colonial government declared a state of emergency in British Malaya after the killing of three Europeans during attacks on plantations. Under the leadership of Chin Peng, communist activists regrouped in the Malayan jungles and formed the MNLA to wage a guerrilla war against British colonial rule. Many of the MNLA fighters who fought against British colonialism were former members of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) who had been trained and funded by the British years prior to fight against the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. The majority of the support for the communist rebels came from the ethnic Malayan-Chinese population, most of which lived in dire poverty, were subject to racial persecution and were barred from voting in elections. The communist's belief in gender equality allowed many women to join the MNLA and their civilian support network the Min Yuen. However with the exception of the Orang Asli aboriginals, the MNLA failed to gain any major following from any ethnic groups other than the Malayan-Chinese due to the association of communism with China and long standing racial tensions within Malaya. After the MNLA had established a series of jungle bases, they began conducting raids on British colonial police and military installations. Tin mines and rubber plantations also became frequent targets of communist sabotage in attempts to make the colonial occupation of Malaya too expensive for the British to maintain. British military experiences during the Emergency would lay the groundwork for future anti-insurgency operations, most famously in the Vietnam War as American...