Letters from Malaya
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These letters were written by my mother to her parents and covered the years 1955 - 1957. They offer an insight into a very different world when Britain still held parts of her Empire intact but was only just beginning to recover fully from the ravages of the Second World War and enjoy a more comfortable way of life.
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My father was a captain in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (R.E.M.E.) and was sent to Malaya with his young family as part of the British government's response to the armed revolt of the Malayan Communist party. An emergency was declared which lasted from 1952 until 1960. The British encouraged Merdeka (Independence) through political means whilst instigating military counter-insurgency measures against the MCP. This remains the only successful jungle campaign against Communism ever to be fought by a Western power.
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I am the Susan/SiSi/Sam mentioned in the book