1st edition. Eastern Universities Press, 1981 In good all round condition., 400grams. Near Fine sm. 8vo. 302pp. Alternatively, this book by Mr. Chin Kee Onn is called THE SILENT ARMY when it was published in USA. Mr. Chin Kee Onn was a school teacher at Batu Gajah, a small town in the State of Perak, Malaya. Later, he "emigrated" to Singapore and became an intelligence journalist when the Communists infiltrated the Island State. This is a keen and observent novel based on historical facts when the Imperial Japanese troops invaded the then British Malaya in 1942, first landed at Kota Bharu in the north. Ma-Rai-Ee was the name given to British Malaya by the imperial japs in brutal occupation of the country. That was from December 1941 to August 1945, for three and a half years. Hence, this book, THE SILENT ARMY, written after the war is a story of Malaya under Imperial Japanese occupation, and the author, who is obviously a Chinese-Malayan, lived in the country throughout those difficult and dreaded times. The background is based on fact. It is the story of a heroic band of Chinese who organized themselves as gurellas and fighting a running battle with the occupying Japs and how they were outwitted with the help of some Australian officers living in their midst in a cave which is hidden in the impenetratable jungles of British Malaya.
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