Reviews

"Malone's fascinating book reveals that the allied guerrillas, with the help of traditional head-hunting local tribesmen, did an outstanding job after being dropped into the Borneo jungle during the Pacific War. In particular, Malone builds a strong argument that the 9th Divisionshould have accepted the guerrillas' accurate intelligence and moved inland to round up the two big groups of Japanese roaming the interior. Instead, following the official Japanese surrender, they chose to withdraw, leaving the loyal locals at the mercy of the Japanese."Brian Toohey - National security writer and former Canberra and Washington correspondent for the Australian Financial Review