I first read a biography of the redoubtable Freddie Spencer Chapman, polar explorer then commando and guerrilla fighter in WWII Malaya.

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In September 1941 he was posted to Malay to help organise local resistance against the impending Japanese invasion. During that time, he trained and lived with Chinese guerillas, was captured by and escaped from the Japanese, collected plant and flower samples, wrote training manuals and newsletters and most of all, gives us a very real account of the jungle being your home.Rarity had by now her breath enough to ask questions, even if she wasn't ready to get up off the deck quite yet. He was the Organising Secretary of the Outward Bound Trust for a year before taking up teaching again as a headmaster.

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This school, the King Alfred School, Plön, for children 11 to 18 years of age, used the German naval establishment at Plön in Schleswig-Holstein where Admiral Dönitz had resided during the last days of World War II.

In his and most other western chronicles of these times, Asians during the Japanese occupation, were the sole betrayers - Malay, Chinese and Indians alike.