The Malayan Emergency of 1948-1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level. Drawing on oral history, recent memoirs and declassified archival material from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack offers a comprehensive, multi-perspective account of the Malayan Emergency and its impact on Malaysia.
He sheds new light on questions about terror and violence against civilians, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted and how revolution was defeated. He considers how government policies such as pressurising villagers, resettlement and winning 'hearts and minds' can be judged from the perspective of insurgents and civilians. This timely book is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency.
| ISBN: | 9781107439481 |
| Publication date: | 16th December 2021 |
| Author: | Karl Hack |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 530 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Military Histories |
| Genres: |
Military history Asian history History and Archaeology |
The Malayan Emergency of 1948-1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level.
The Malayan Emergency features in the following genres: Military history, Asian history, History and Archaeology
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The Malayan Emergency was written by Karl Hack and published by Cambridge University Press
The Malayan Emergency has 530 pages
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