Britain's Secret War: The Indonesian Confrontation 1962-66 (Men-at-Arms Series 431) (Repost)
Will Fowler, Kevin Lyles - Britain's Secret War: The Indonesian Confrontation 1962-66
Osprey Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 184603048X | English | 51 pages | PDF | 9.38 MB
Men-at-Arms Series 431
Osprey Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 184603048X | English | 51 pages | PDF | 9.38 MB
Men-at-Arms Series 431
The ‘Confrontation’ between Malaysia and Indonesia in Bornew (January 20, 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.