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Article: Correspondence.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Sir,
I am grateful to Karl Hack for putting me in touch with my historical sub-conscious ("Iron Claws on Malaya", JSEAS [March 1999]). I am , of course, flattered to be bracketed with Professor Northcote Parkinson, but was hitherto unaware that being at school in wartime Britain could have affected my view of Templer's part in the Malayan insurrection. I hadn't, I admit, realized there was an image of Montgomery turning the World War Two "tide" at El Alamein. But I think there is quite a lot of agreement that there was a crisis of confidence in the Eighth Army before he took command, not to mention endless rumours of British withdrawal from Egypt. Obviously, ...