The Malayan Life of Ferdach O'Haney
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The Malayan Life of Ferdach O'Haney by Frederick Lees
It is 1950 and the Federation of Malaya is in the throes of the Malayan Emergency. British, Australian and New Zealand troops are struggling to defeat the communist terrorists, and the colonial British are having to deal with rising nationalism in the colony.Ferdach O'Haney arrives in Malaya as a young Anglo-Irish man to serve the Federation government, and he is plunged into the nitty-gritty of Malayan Emergency duties in the New Villages and in the communist-occupied jungles of Perak. Gregarious and bisexual, O'Haney is equally at home in the brothels of Penang and in Singapore's sleazy Bugis Street as he is in the corridors of British intelligence at Phoenix Park in Singapore and in the manicured grounds of King's House and Carcosa in Kuala Lumpur. He befriends communist terrorists and nationalist sympathisers, experiences the bloody Maria Hertogh race riots, and comes up against prejudiced colonial administrators. O'Haney meets General Briggs and Chin Peng, the leader of the communist guerrillas, and he reveals new information about the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney.The Malayan Life of Ferdach O'Haney is a fictionalised account of the author Frederick Lees own experiences in 1950s Malaya.
Frederick Lees served in the RAF during the war and afterwards studied at Liverpool and London Universities. He then joined the Colonial Service and served in the Federation of Malaya. Subsequently he entered the British Diplomatic Service which took him back to South East Asia. The last part of his career in Asia was spent in the Asian Development Bank in Manila. He now lives with his wife in Rye, Sussex, UK, where he has founded a theatre movement to celebrate the works of John Fletcher, the Jacobean Rye dramatist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789810823825 |
| ISBN 10 | 9810823827 |
| Title | The Malayan Life of Ferdach O'Haney |
| Author | Frederick Lees |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Monsoon Books |
| Year published | 2009-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 572 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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