For the past three months of their eight-year war against Malaya’s Communist terrorists, British and Malayan police and soldiers have been so ordered: before firing on suspects, they must call out the ...
One evening last January, in the pale green dining room of Ottawa’s Rideau Hall, Winston Churchill sat at a banquet table, ruddy-faced in an atmosphere redolent of brandy and cigars. He was Prime ...
pt. 1. Setting the stage. How armies learn -- The hard lesson of insurgency -- The British and American armies: separated by a common language -- pt. 2. Malaya. British army counterinsurgency learning ...
Set during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, ‘Blue Orchids’ follows a mother, Mei Lan (Sasha Leong), and her young daughter as they struggle to survive wartime brutality. (Toprock Productions pic) A ...
A feature-length wartime documentary compiled by Nihon Eigasha, Malayan War Record: A Record of the Onward March chronicles Japan’s 1941–42 campaign from the Malayan Peninsula to the fall of Singapore ...