Out in the Midday Sun: The British in Malaya 1880-1960 Vendor Code_V0317 being lost and found

being lost and found

as well gods and goddesses

Undercover in a poisonous world

not against it

Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations

Out in the Midday Sun: The British in Malaya 1880-1960 Vendor Code_V0317 being lost and foundTold through letters and diaries, this is the gripping story of British Malaya from its days of promise to the end of Empire. A region rich in natural resources such as tin and rubber, fortunes for enterprising Britons were there for the making. But in the 1920s and 30s their enchanted tropical existence allowed colonials to become complacent and the British Government to fail to recognise the rising Japanese threat. In World War II Malaya was thrown