Books from the Library of Peter Duckers

My Own War in Malaya, by D. Russell-Roberts, privately printed in a very limited number for family, c. 1946, 183pp., a detailed and gripping account of the writer’s hard campaign with 5/11th Sikhs (ex. 47th Sikhs) during the Second World War in Malaya, prior to being taken a Prisoner of War at the fall of Singapore, with map section, hardback, good condition and rare

The War in Malaya, by Lieutenant-General A. E. Percival, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., Sagar Publications, New Delhi, 1971, 345pp, an account of the fall of Malaya and Singapore by the man who presided over that humiliating defeat, hardback, in dust-jacket, the dust-jacket slightly torn, otherwise good condition

Eastern Epic: Defence, by C. Mackenzie, Chatto & Windus 1951, 623pp., a classic account of Indian Army at war up to March 1943, with index, hardback, good condition (3) £20-£30

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