Buy this book on-line HOE,ALAN & MORRIS,ERIC: : Re-enter the SAS:The Special Air Service and the Malayan EmergencyLONDON.LEO COOPER,1994. ISBN 0850523834.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,bright, clean,glossy laminated super-imposed b/w photographic upper wrap; rear wrap illustrated by colour regimental badge dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - a minute nick to upper,top corner - no other nicks or tears
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backstrip.Top edge lightly aged but clean; fore-edge generally clean with a couple of grubbed marks - nothing excessive though,contents bright,
tight and clean.Bright,clean,tan paper-covered bds
with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and plain near immaculate white eps - ffe has small mark/stain to it's vertical edge.UK,
8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,(approx 9.50" tall x 6.25" wide),vii-xpp [unpaginated] +1-230pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,b/w map (Malaya) frntis,intro,glossary,16 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs dotted throughout the
text,Appendices(2),Annexes A+B,and an index.See also,my book ID rja600916 for another similar example of this title.
'O it's Tommy this and Tommy that an "Tommy go away"; But it's "Thank you Mr Atkins",when the band begins to play.' In 1945 the bands played their final victory roll and hordes of temporary Mr Atkinses heaved a sigh of relief and went off to settle down,as best they could,to a life of austerity in post-war Britain.Most regiments were reduced to one or possibly two battalions and some
units disappeared altogether,among them the Special Air Service which had been founded in North Africa in July 1941 by David Stirling,then a
subaltern in the Scots Guards.It was not long,
however,before the short-sightedness of this move became apparent and,thanks largely to the outbreak
of the Malayan Emergency and the unremitting efforts of the legendary Michael Calvert who had won fame with the Chindits during the war in Burma,the SAS was reformed; and not a few of its members who had found it hard to settle down in civilian life were only too delighted to rejoin the colours.It is no exaggeration to say that since then the SAS has become the best-known and most highly regarded unit in the whole of the British Army.
Alan Hoe and Eric Morris here explain how and why
this remarkable renaissance came about and show how it was that the brilliant record of the SAS in
Malaya eventually convinced the 'suits' in Whitehall that such a unit was essential to the proper functioning of the British Army.
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