Publisher's Synopsis
A Scots Guards patrol carries out an anti-insurgency raid on a rubber plantation north of Kuala Lumpur and triggers Britain's darkest hour in post-war colonial Malaya. An immediate cover-up is imposed. It lasts six shameful decades and continues to this day. This book, the culmination of four years research, stands as the first attempt to present a cohesive study of the Batang Kali episode in its entirety.