Title:
MALAYAN SPYMASTER : MEMOIRS OF A RUBBER PLANTER BANDIT FIGHTER AND SPY
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition
Physical Description:
424 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9789810854423
9789814358309
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Summary
Summary
A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman's covert Stay Behind Party in Japanese-occupied Malaya, a member of the Secret Intelligence Service, and he formed the first Home Guard unit in Malaya during the Emergency. Required reading for this period of Southeast Asian history.
Author Notes
Boris Hembry was a rubber planter in Malaysia and Indonesia from the 1930s to the late 1950s. Not only was he an important figure in the planting community and a devoted family man but he also proved himself in the theatre of war. He died in 1990.
