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 nineteen 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. Well into his nineties, he still walks four hours daily. Operation Blind Spot is the second book in a trilogy of historical military novels set in Southeast Asia, which may be read in any order. Operation Blind Spot and Operation Janus involve Gurkha military units, and the author draws on real events he witnessed and real people he fought alongside, or against, during the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo Confrontation. Operation Four Rings starts in the British Army’s Jungle Warfare School in Malaysia and comes to its dramatic conclusion in Laos.
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J.P. Cross: First In, Last Out
This is the astonishing tale of two episodes in the life of Colonel J P Cross, jungle fighter and linguist extraordinaire.As a young officer at the end of the war against Japan in 1945, he took part …
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J P Cross: It Happens With Gurkhas
Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then with the Indian Army of the Raj, and then in 1947 becoming an integral part of the Briti …
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John Cross: Jungle Warfare
The physical conditions of jungle warfare and the closeness of contact with the enemy pose unique problems and call for special soldiering skills. Colonel John Cross, a life long Gurkha officer, has …
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J.P. Cross & Buddhiman Gurung: Gurkhas at War
Is indepth interviews with Gurkhas soldiers past and present, depicts key military campaigns of the 20th century in the words of the men who were there. From WW2 to the present day, these eyewitness …
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J.P. Cross & Buddhiman Gurung: Gurkhas at War
Is indepth interviews with Gurkhas soldiers past and present, depicts key military campaigns of the 20th century in the words of the men who were there. From WW2 to the present day, these eyewitness …
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