Operation Toba
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British
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colonial
Emergency Period
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Gurkha
India
Malaya
Malaysia
military
Penang
Singapore
World War Two
Product details
- ISBN 9781915310569
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Monsoon Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When the Japanese Empire prepares to strike south in 1941, Malaya becomes the stage for a shadow war of spies, saboteurs and secret allegiances.
Masumi Toba, a Japanese Canadian veteran turned covert agent, hides his divided loyalties behind a camera lens in Singapore. Philip Rance, a British colonial, and his Chinese ‘brother’ Ah Zun serve as undercover operatives, their sons destined to inherit a dangerous legacy. One becomes a Gurkha officer, the other a deep-cover infiltrator in the Malayan Communist Party.
A clerical error gives their mission an unlikely name – Operation Toba – but in the jungles of Malaya, mistakes can mean death. As the Japanese invasion begins, these men must navigate treachery, loyalty, and survival in a war where every choice carries the weight of empire.
Operation Toba is the eleventh in a series of books involving Gurkha military units that may be read in any order. The author, JP Cross, a retired Gurkha colonel, old ‘jungle hand’ and counter-insurgency expert, draws on real events he witnessed during his time fighting in the Malayan Emergency.
Masumi Toba, a Japanese Canadian veteran turned covert agent, hides his divided loyalties behind a camera lens in Singapore. Philip Rance, a British colonial, and his Chinese ‘brother’ Ah Zun serve as undercover operatives, their sons destined to inherit a dangerous legacy. One becomes a Gurkha officer, the other a deep-cover infiltrator in the Malayan Communist Party.
A clerical error gives their mission an unlikely name – Operation Toba – but in the jungles of Malaya, mistakes can mean death. As the Japanese invasion begins, these men must navigate treachery, loyalty, and survival in a war where every choice carries the weight of empire.
Operation Toba is the eleventh in a series of books involving Gurkha military units that may be read in any order. The author, JP Cross, a retired Gurkha colonel, old ‘jungle hand’ and counter-insurgency expert, draws on real events he witnessed during his time fighting in the Malayan Emergency.
Lt. Col. JP Cross is a retired British officer who served with Gurkha units for nearly forty years. He has been an Indian frontier soldier, jungle fighter, policeman, military attaché, Gurkha recruitment officer and a linguist researcher, and he is the author of twenty-four books. He has fought in Burma, Indo-China, Malaya and Borneo and served in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Laos and Nepal where he now lives. Having reached his hundredth year, he still walks several hours daily.
