The Autobiography of the world's leading Counter Insurgency Expert
by
Sir Robert Thompson KBE CMG DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
When Robert Thompson left Cambridge to join the Malayan Civil Service in 1938 the sun still shone on the British Empire for 24 hours a day. The outbreak of war in the Pacific found him in Hong Kong from which he was obliged to make a hurried and dramatic exit. From that point most of his working life...