MESSENGER Charles

The steadfast Gurkha: historical record of 6th Queen Elizabeth's own Gurkha Rifles: Vol 3 1948- 1982/ Charles Messenger - London: Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1985 - 147p.

It covers the period 1948-82, taking the reader from the turbulence brought about by the granting of independence to India in 1947, through the long years of the Malayan Emergency, confrontation in Borneo the periodic overspills into Hong Kong of communist China's internal upheavals to Belize and peacetime soldiering in Britain and Brunei.

0436277808 (hbk.)


BRITISH -- GURKHAS
BRUNEI -- GURKHAS
MALAYAN EMERGENCY
CONFRONTATION -- BORNEO