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Under Fire - Malaya
Paperback
Series: Under Fire
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 15 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
December 1941.
The Japanese invasion begins in storm and darkness-and the British Empire starts to fall back.
On the beaches of Kota Bharu, soldiers meet the first landings under torrential rain and gunfire. Along jungle roads and river crossings, British, Indian, and Australian troops fight desperate rear-guard actions against an enemy that moves too fast and strikes from every direction. RAF ground crews struggle to keep shattered airfields alive. Engineers prepare bridges for demolition while convoys, refugees, and wounded clog the roads south. In the rubber estates and deep jungle, men become cut off, hunted, and forgotten.
This is not one battle.
This is twelve.
Told through twelve gripping perspectives, Under Fire: Malaya throws you into one of the most chaotic and brutal campaigns of the Second World War-from beaches, ambushes, and airfields to burning roads, jungle patrols, collapsing lines, and the final retreat toward Singapore.
No clear front line.
No secure rear.
Only mud, heat, fear, and the constant pressure of an enemy that never seems to stop moving.
From infantrymen and engineers to drivers, nurses, airmen, and the soldiers left behind in the jungle, these are the stories of the men and women caught inside the collapse of British Malaya.
Because some campaigns are fought for victory.
Some are fought for survival.
And some are remembered for the speed at which everything falls apart.
They thought the jungle would slow the enemy.
The men on the road learned otherwise.
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