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Britain's Secret War: The Indonesian Confrontation 1962 - 66

By Will Fowler , Kevin Lyles

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
Year
2006
ISBN
9781846030482, 1-84603-048-X
Open Library ID
OL8961884M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9832823 bytes)
Series
Men At Arms 431
Pages
51\51
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The ‘Confrontation’ between Malaysia and Indonesia in Bornew 20/1/2006 the war against Indonesian raids across a 900-mile border in some of the world’s worst jungle terrain – eventually involved nearly 20,000 British and Commonwealth troops, with air and naval support; and yet, by mutual consent, it was astonishingly little reported at the time. This ‘secret war’ saw the perfection of SAS jungle tactics; a Parachute Regiment action described as ‘a second Rorke’s Drift’; and audacious secret missions deep inside enemy territory, including the award to a Gurkha soldier of the British Army’s only ‘living VC’ for 40 years.

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