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Malaya: The Communist Insurgent War, 1948-1960 - Edgar O`Ballance
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An authorative account of the struggle by Communist rebel's efforts to seize power, resulting in violence and reasons for its failure.
Very scarce.
One of the most important in recent world history has bee the successful, though protracted, campaign of the successive British and Malayan governments against the communist rebels in the jungles and remote villages of the peninsula. Major OBallance, whose books on recent military history, and in particular on wars involving the Communist guerrilla techniques, have won him a wide reputation, provides here a lucid and authorative account of the struggle, stage by stage.
The reasons for the Communist failure are complex. It was partly due to their own political and tactical errors and partly after an initial slump in morale to vigorous and shrewdly judged counter-measures on the part of the administration, particularly during Sir Gerald Templers tenure of office. In a final chapter the author discusses this and similar questions (not excluding the significance for the struggle of the great independence) and suggests what lessons may be learned about the nature of guerrilla warfare and ways of dealing with it.
*From the blurb.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good to Fine.
Red cloth covered boards with gilt titling on spine.
Shows minimal signs of wear. Text-block intact.
A clean tight copy internally, firmly bound. Pages are tidy and clean.
Edges of pages lightly tinted with age.
Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. Top and bottom edges slightly worn and spine ends and front wraps nicked but otherwise in Very Good condition. Some scuffing and light marks on surface, and on the front joint. Covered with protective plastic book cover.
Published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1966.
Binding Condition: Very Good to Fine.
Overall Condition: Very Good to Fine.
Size: Crown Octavo (8vo) (8vo), 221 mm x 142 mm x 24 mm)
188 pages.
Major Edgar Paddy O'Ballance (17 July 1918, Dublin, Ireland 8 July 2009, Wakebridge, Derbyshire, England was an Irish-born British military journalist, researcher, defence commentator and academic lecturer specialising in international relations and defence problems.
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