Malayan spymaster : memoirs of a rubber planter, bandit fighter, and spy
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Malayan spymaster : memoirs of a rubber planter, bandit fighter, and spy
Monsoon, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 419) and index
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内容説明
This is 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. Boris Hembry went out to Malaya as a rubber planter in 1930 to work on estates in Malaya and Sumatra. Following the Japanese invasion in December 1941 he volunteered for Freddy Spencer Chapman's covert Stay Behind Party and spent a month in the jungle behind enemy lines before escaping by sampan across the Malacca Strait to Sumatra. Hembry returned to Singapore shortly before its surrender then escaped to Java and subsequently to India, where he joined V Force, a clandestine intelligence unit operating in Burma. In 1943 Hembry was recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service - given the bland cover name Inter-Services Liaison Department (ISLD) - and returned to Sumatra and Malaya several times by submarine on intelligence-gathering missions.
He became Head of Malayan Country Section ISLD in 1944, liaised with Force 136, and was responsible for the most successful intelligence coup of the Malayan war After WWII, Hembry returned to planting at Sungei Siput, Perak, where the murder of three colleagues on 16 June 1948 signalled the start of the Malayan Emergency. Assuming the leadership of the local planting community, he formed the first Home Guard unit in Malaya, was an early proponent of squatter control (later incorporated into the Briggs Plan), served on district, state and federal security committees, and survived several attempts on his life.
目次
Preface Foreword Maps Landfall in Malaya (March 1930) Creeping in Johore (April 1930 - December 1930) Sojourn in Sumatra (January 1931 - December 1932) Kedah Days (January 1933 - April 1934) Johore Again (August 1934 - February 1935) Marriage & Managership (July 1935 - May 1936) Kamuning Estate (May 1936 - December 1941) Retreat (December 1941) Stay Behind Party (January 1942 - February 1942) Escape (Mid-February 1942 - Mid-March 1942) Marking Time (April 1942 - July 1942) V Force (August 1942 - February 1943) ISLD (March 1943 - April 1944) Home (April 1944 - July 1944) Command (August 1944 - December 1945) Kamuning Again (December 1945 - September 1947) Bandits (September 1947 - January 1951) Palm Oil (January 1951 - September 1951) Disaster (September 1951 - September 1952) Home (October 1952 - December 1955) Postscript Appendices A: Non-appearance of Spencer Chapman at Tanjong Malim rendezvous B: Fate of Frank Vanrenen and Ronald Graham C: Winning Hearts and Minds Glossary Bibliography Index
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