{"product_id":"war-of-the-running-dogs-malaya-19481960","title":"War of the Running Dogs: Malaya  1948-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnly three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation  war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogstheir contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the \"Malayan Emergency.\" Yet it was a war that lasted 12 years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independencebut on British  not on Chinese or Communist  terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates  the policemen  the generals and the soldiers  the Malays  Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country  all fighting an astute  ruthless  and well organized enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949593161781,"sku":"ByrdShop_0304366714","price":89.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780304366712.jpg?v=1770082484","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/war-of-the-running-dogs-malaya-19481960","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}