THE wars in Malaya were not an election issue in 1874 like the Ashanti War. The Straits of Malacca question, which briefly held the political headlines during January 1874, concerned the Dutch invasion of northern Sumatra, not Britain's intervention in the Peninsula. Although a telegram ...
WAR IN MALAYA: SCOTS SCOUR JUNGLE FOR UNSEEN FOE Graphic pictures of a facet in Far Eastern anti-Red war show how British soldiers fight against enormous odds in jungle. Description not available WEST GERMANY: BRAWL AT FOOTBALL MATCH BETWEEN MANCHESTER UNITED AND HANOVER; BRITISH SOLDIERS FIGHT ...
While the term 'hearts and minds' does not accurately represent Britain's experience of counter-insurgency in the retreat from Empire; in the post-Cold War period the British military has been generally more 'political' and less coercive in its approach to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan and ...
Part 1It is generally conceded that the record of post- World War II Western or pro-Western governments in countering insurgency has been marked by a long and sad succession of failures. The French endeavours to overcome insurgent forces in Indo-China and Algeria, those of the British with re...
[Map] Maps depicting British dispositions in Malaya and Singapore on 7 Dec 1941 and the Japanese advance from Dec 1941 to Jan 1942 | World War II Database
Part 1It is generally conceded that the record of post- World War II Western or pro-Western governments in countering insurgency has been marked by a long and sad succession of failures. The French endeavours to overcome insurgent forces in Indo-China and Algeria, those of the British with ...
, Prisoners in War (Oxford, 2010). 参见罗伯特·C·道尔《落到我们手头的敌人》(列克星敦,肯塔基,2010),可以在西比拉·希佩斯《战争中的战俘们》(牛津,2010)中找到一篇学术综述。 ^What discussion of British POWs there is tends to be relegated to small sections of studies devoted to wider aspects ...
Translating higher education in the British Empire : the question of vernacular degrees in Postwar Malaya This paper analyses the decision of British academic advisors to deny vernacular university degrees in post–war Malaya. As a case study, this decision was important as one element in the first...
British war films were coming thick and fast at this time, and several were about prisoners. Virginia McKenna played women taken prisoner in two films: Jack Lee’sA Town Like Alice(1956), based on Nevil Shute’s novel of a camp run by the Japanese in Malaya, and Lewis Gilbert’sCarve He...
(Placename)Republic of South Africaa republic occupying the southernmost part of the African continent: the Dutch Cape Colony (1652) was acquired by Britain in 1806 and British victory in the Boer War resulted in the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, which became a republic in...