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Britain's Secret War: The Indonesian Confrontation 1962 - 66 (Men-at-Arms) |  | Author: Will Fowler
Creator: Kevin Lyles
Brand: Britain's Secret War
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1005545
Media: Paperback
Pages: 48
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: MAA431
ISBN: 184603048X
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.8036
EAN: 9781846030482
ASIN: 184603048X
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
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Product Description
The 'Confrontation' between Malaysia and Indonesia in Borneo - the war against Indonesian raids across a 900-mile border - eventually involved nearly 20,000 British and Commonwealth troops, with air and naval support; and yet, by mutual consent, astonishingly little was reported at the time. This 'secret war' saw the perfection of SAS jungle tactics and audacious secret missions deep inside enemy territory, including the award to a Gurkha soldier of the British Army's only 'living VC' for 40 years. This book will reveal the experiences of the soldiers who survived and succeeded amidst some of the world's worst jungle terrain.
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 A good source of information on a little known confrontation January 6, 2009
Phoebus Athanasiou (Germany)
Excellent artwork by K.Lyles and a good deal of background information on the conflict from the author. Had the latter aspect been examined further and the links to the Malayan Emergency investigated more thoroughly (to the detriment of some of the less interesting information on purely operational matters), this work would no doubt have deserved a five star review. In any event, highly commended.
 A fascinating story February 20, 2008
Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This interesting account of the military operations that afflicted British forces in Malaysia between 1962 and 1966 mostly concentrate on the problems in Borneo. The English army had only recently suppressed the Malaya emergency in which tnes of thousands of Communist Chinese peasants had tied up some 40,000 British troops. When that had ended in 1960 things began to deteriorate with recently independent Malaysia (ind. 1957) fighting with Indonesia which had become independent in 1945 and was in the midst of a campaign fo ethnic-cleansing against its Chinese minority who were suspected of being Communists.
A series of gueilla fights ensued in which some 20,000 British troops took part. A fascinating story about Southeast Asia, one that was not reported at the time and its rarely spoken about today. An interesting history.
Seth J. Frantzman
Osprey excellence June 13, 2007
R. finiff (Iowa USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Another great Osprey publioation. See South African special forces review. It will be the same. Cheers!
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