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title: "Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy Paperback – 16 Jan. 2012"
brand: "boris hembry"
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# Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy Paperback – 16 Jan. 2012

**Brand:** boris hembry
**Price:** 20650CFA
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- **What is this?** Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy Paperback – 16 Jan. 2012 by boris hembry
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A 20th century Odyssey a worthy read from the life experiences of a man of his time..
  

*by G***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2016*

The unusual entertaining and involving life history of Mr Boris Hembry a young Englishman his book starts with his schooldays and then to the beginning of a colonial career in the Malayan plantations working as a plantation overseer supervisor of a number of plantations among the vast rubber planting estates in Malaya during the nineteen twenties and thirties.  His exposed position in Malaya inevitably  leads onto him having a series of risk filled adventures while he was on the run from the Japanese after he had volunteered to go behind the Japanese lines as a stay behind team. The cataclysmic  long premeditated and intricately well planned ...unstoppable chain of events lost us the Battle of Singapore before it had really started.  Most of these stay behind teams found themselves without the necessary external support they desperately needed when Singapore surrendered.  This event reduced these teams to being no more than exhausted fugitives constantly harried and hunted by the Malayan police and the Japanese Army.Then the book describes his jungle experiences and his escape from Malaya and  progresses to Boris Hembry's career as a spymaster till the second world war ended.  Then he describes his role in  the postwar conflict between the British and the chinese maoist freedom fighters/terrorists in Malaya and his subsequent retirement .

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very interesting life and times
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2017*

An excellent and very interesting read. One can tell it has been edited down and I got a little lost with different people sometimes, but really very interesting insight into the lives, the period and the events people had to get through, surviving where others did not and thriving in a very different life. I looked forward every night to getting home and reading it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An absolutely fascinating read - couldn't put it down
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2024*

First of all, don't let the title, which sounds like a cheesy spy novel, put you off.I can safely say this is one of the most enthralling books I have ever read.From start to finish it is packed with fascinating, funny, (and shocking) stories. I lived in Malaysia and am very interesting in the history and culture of the country. I am also British, and am interested in the what the Brits got up to in Malaysia way back when. I also like a great tale with an inspirational person at the centre of it.Therefore, the story of Boris Hembry's life ticked all the boxes for me. Inspiring and fascinating. Would highly recommend!!!

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