The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerillas 1948-1960

Noel Barber

Mar 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Roger Davis

About this audiobook

"A splendid, exciting book" -Daily Mirror "The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book" -Sunday Express Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs-their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence-but on British, not on Chinese or Communist terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates, the policemen, the generals and the soldiers, the Malays, Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country, all fighting an astute, ruthless, and well-organized enemy.

About the author

Noel Barber is the author of Lords of the Golden Horn, Sinister Twilight, and Tanamera.

Roger Davis has worked for over twenty years in the audio industry as an actor, narrator, director, producer, and editor. With a background in both performance and professional studio recording, he is able to operate successfully on both sides of the mixing desk, and has over 500 audiobook credits to his name.