Red Shadow Over Malaya

Published by William Blackwood, London, UK. Date: 1955. 1st edition. Original cloth. Dustwrapper. Size: 14.8cm x 22.3cm. Pp. xiv + 303. Illustrated with plates and maps. A detailed account of his time spent as Commander of 63 Gurkha Infantry Brigade and the operations against the bandits in Malaya from January 1952 to December 1954. Includes chapters on ‘Singapore’, ‘Seremban’, ‘The Green Howards Kill Two Bandits’, ‘Abu Nur and the Pawang’, ‘The Fijians Join 63 Brigade’, ‘Operative Hive’, and ‘Malacca’. Henniker was mentioned in despatches during the campaign and retired from active service in 1958. Binding nice and tight. Pages nice and clean. A near fine, tight, clean copy in very good plus, slightly nicked, rubbed and faded dustwrapper. Scarce.