RE-ENTER THE SAS - The Special Air Service and the Malayan Emergency


Hoe , Alan and Morris , Eric


London 1994 , Leo Cooper, First UK hard bound edition in dust jacket, Fine / Fine condition , 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 , 228 pages , illus. , map , illus, list of operation code names , list of honours and awards , index . . 

An excellent account of the rebirth of this famous British elite unit and their service during the campaign in Malaya 1950 - 1958 . In 1945 the bands played their final victory roll and hordes of temporary Mr Atkinses heaved a sigh of relief and went off to settle down, as best they could, to a life of austerity in post-war Britain. Most regiments were reduced to one or possibly two battalions and some units disappeared altogether, among them the Special Air Service which had been founded in North Africa in July 1941 by David Stirling, then a subaltern in the Scots Guards.

 It was not long, however, before the short-sightedness of this move became apparent and, thanks largely to the outbreak of the Malayan Emergency and the unremitting efforts of the legendary Michael Calvert who had won fame with the Chindits during the war in Burma, the SAS was reformed; and not a few of its members who had found it hard to settle down in civilian life were only too delighted to rejoin the colours. It is no exaggeration to say that since then the SAS has become the best-known and most highly regarded unit in the whole of the British Army.

Alan Hoe and Eric Morris here explain how and why this remarkable renaissance came about and show how it was that the brilliant record of the SAS in Malaya eventually convinced the `suits' in Whitehall that such a unit was essential to the proper functioning of the British Army.

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