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The special operations executive in MalayaWorld War II and the path to independence /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The special operations executive in MalayaRebecca Kenneison.
Reminder of title:	World War II and the path to independence /
Author:	Kenneison, Rebecca.
Published:	London ;Bloomsbury Academic,2019.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 254 p.) :ill.
Notes:	Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.
Subject:	MalayaHistoryJapanese occupation, 1942-1945.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350118560?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ISBN:	9781350118560$q(ebook)

The special operations executive in MalayaWorld War II and the path to independence /
Kenneison, Rebecca.

The special operations executive in MalayaWorld War II and the path to independence /[electronic resource] :Rebecca Kenneison. - First edition. - London ;Bloomsbury Academic,2019. - 1 online resource (xiv, 254 p.) :ill.

Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent army of the Malayan Emergency. This book traces the development of SOE's Malayan operations, and analyses the interactions between SOE and the various guerrilla groups. It explores the reasons for and the extent of Malay disillusionment with Japanese rule, and demonstrates how guerrilla service acted as a training ground for some later Malay leaders of the independent nation. However, the reports written about the MPAJAby SOE operatives just after the war failed to draw out the likely future threat posed by the communists to the returning colonial administration. Rebecca Kenneison shows that the British possessed a wealth of local information, but failedto convert it into active intelligence in the period prior to the Malayan Emergency. In doing so she provides new insights into the impact of SOE on Malayan politics, the nature of Malayan communism's challenge to colonial rule, and British post-war intelligence in Malaya."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

ISBN: 9781350118560$q(ebook)Subjects--Corporate Names:

828520
Great Britain.
Special Operations Executive--History.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

435515
Malaya
--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: D810.S7 / K46 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 940.548641095951

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