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A
truly unique document of history...
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Hundreds of thousands
of British and Commonwealth servicemen found themselves
dispatched to the Malayan theatre during the Emergency years
- 1948 to 60. |
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If you were one of them, you helped shape history. But...
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How much of that war did you
really understand? What lay behind the enemy's strategy?
What motivated those jungle guerrillas and their commanders?
Who devised their tactics? |
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Now, for the first time in the
annals of British and Commonwealth military history, veterans
can read what their war was like, viewed from the other
side, through the eyes of the enemy's leader. In this case,
the legendary Chin Peng. |
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To mark the occasion, Media
Masters, publishers of Chin Peng's gripping recollections,
MY SIDE OF HISTORY, have arranged an exclusive offer
to enable those who served during the Malayan Emergency
to secure their personal copy of a truly historic book. |
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| Chin Peng writes... |
| 'Having
lived as long as I have, I am now able to enjoy what I can
only describe as a levitated view of history. I was instrumenal
in playing out one side of the Emergency story. Access to
declassified documents today gives me the ability to look
back and down on the other side and see the broad picture.' |
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| About the revolutionary you
were sent to fight |
| Chin Peng was a teenager when he
joined the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM). Within two years
he and fellow CPM guerrillas were operating with members
of Britain's clandestine Force 136 behind lines in Japanese
occupied Malaya - 1942 to 1945. |
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| Following Japan's capitulation,
the British bestowed on Chin Peng two campaign medals and
an Order of the British Empire (OBE). |
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| But the enticements failed. |
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| To extinguish the revolutionary
flames thereafter ignited by the Chin Peng-led CPM, Britain
would embark on a 12-year military campaign which she chose
to label an 'emergency' rather than the war that it was. |
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| MY SIDE OF HISTORY is the
chronicle of a fretful age that posed monumental challenges
and how different political persuasions within that generation
rose to meet them. |
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| The parallels to be drawn between
the Malayan Emergency and contemporary world conflicts are
uncanny, if not deeply disturbing. |
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| Chin Peng further writes... |
| 'When
the war came I had to be with the guerrilla forces fighting
the Japanese. As a young man I saw no other route that would
have sat well with me for the rest of my life. Just as I
was appalled by the British colonial days before the war,
I was outraged by the Japanese invasion. I had to help actively
undermine the invaders. To compromise would have been more
harrowing than the formidable hills and jungles we had to
trudge through. I had to be a liberation fighter.' |
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| These sentiments ultimately came
with a fearful post-World War II price. Chin Peng chose
to pay it. |
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| MY SIDE OF HISTORY is the
story of that choice. |
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