TY - BOOK AU - MESSENGER Charles TI - The steadfast Gurkha: historical record of 6th Queen Elizabeth's own Gurkha Rifles: Vol 3 1948- 1982 SN - 0436277808 (hbk.) PY - 1985/// CY - London PB - Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg Ltd KW - BRITISH KW - GURKHAS KW - BRUNEI KW - MALAYAN EMERGENCY KW - CONFRONTATION KW - BORNEO N2 - 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 ER -