Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 15 results for “jp cross”
Skip side bar filters

  • Gurkha Tales

    From Peace and War, 1945–2011

    by J.P. Cross ...
    J. P. CROSS has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal, being the only foreigner in the history of the country to be allowed to be both a house- and land-owner. His language ability is such that, even after 90 minutes of being interviewed on the radio, only those who recognized his voice knew he was not a Nepali.With this unparalleled knowledge ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asia Is a 4-Letter Word

    by J.P. Cross ...
    A Memoir of Love, Duty, and the GurkhasJ.P. Cross served with the legendary Gurkha soldiers for decades, forging bonds of brotherhood across cultures in some of the most challenging terrain and circumstances imaginable. From the jungles of Burma and Malaya to the mountains of Nepal, this memoir captures the extraordinary experiences of a British officer who dedicated his life to serving alongside ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Tipping Point

    by JP Cross ...
    Series series Operation
    Malaya, 1951. It is the Malayan Emergency and a British major, commanding a rifle company of Gurkhas, is woken in the small hours by a call from Special Branch with the six-figure grid reference of a large party of communist guerrillas. The line is poor, the army man is hung over and the location is written down incorrectly. But Dame Fortune, that ever fickle lady, also decrees that the Special ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Operation Black Rose

    by JP Cross ...
    In 1938 Malaya, Japanese intelligence officers and pro-Independence Indians conspire to test their suspicions about British intelligence officer Philip Rance by attempting to burgle his office. The plot is foiled by Rance’s teenage son, Jason, who must move to England to escape revenge.Singapore and Malaya fall to the Japanese and captured Indian POWs are enlisted in the anti-British ‘Indian ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Operation Hunter

    by JP Cross ...
    Series series Operation
    In 1938 Malaya, a young English boy named Jason Rance rescues Siu Tse, a Chinese girl, from a vicious assault. Their paths diverge before she learns his name, leaving her to idolise the memory of her unknown saviour. Fast forward to 1953, and the height of the Malayan Emergency, where tensions and conflicts engulf the region. Siu Tse discovers she is pregnant by a British officer who is planning ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Operation Blowpipe

    by JP Cross ...
    Series series Operation
    Jason Rance, an officer in a wartime Gurkha battalion, involved in the deaths or capture of four Malaya-born members of the Indian National Army, returns to Malaya in 1948 in a new Gurkha battalion where he is operationally engaged in fighting the Communist guerillas. The parents of the four dead men find out how Rance was involved with their sons' deaths and plan revenge. Meanwhile, a member of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Operation Janus

    by JP Cross ...
    Skinny Chinese taxi-girls dance with off-duty British military personnel at the Yam Yam nightclub to the strains of ‘Rose, Rose, I love you’ and ‘Terang Bulan’. Attractively dressed in their long, tight-fitting, slit-sided cheongsams, the girls also listen out for loose talk, which they feed back to their Communist handlers. It is 1950s Malaya and the country is in the throes of the Malayan ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Operation Four Rings

    by JP Cross ...
    Series series Operation
    After the ceasefire in Laos in February 1973, London forbids Colonel Jason Rance, the British Defence Attaché in Laos, from continuing his search for four Lao ‘moles', who work within the Communist Party and wear a dedicated ring as a talisman.Unsanctioned contingency plans are therefore made by others for Rance to continue his work with the moles, the ‘Four Rings', in an unattributable Operation ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Operation Red Tidings

    by JP Cross ...
    Series series Operation
    Malaya, 1954: Chin Peng, Secretary General of the Malayan Communist Party, listens with excitement as the early morning Radio Malaya broadcaster announces the death of a British Lieutenant Colonel and his two Gurkha escorts in a guerrilla ambush by communist terrorists (CTs) on the Jelebu Pass.Jason Rance, an English company commander in a Gurkha battalion during the Malayan Emergency, is the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Face Like a Chicken's Backside

    An Unconventional Soldier in South East Asia, 1948–71

    by J. P. Cross ...
    In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them 'under the jungle canopy'. He amassed a wealth of experience fighting against Communist Revolutionary Warfare, and training others to do so. As a result he was called upon to work in many formidable situations, and twice found himself on an army short-list of one for difficult tasks. Cross focuses on ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Stealth

    by JP Cross ...
    Series series Operation Janus
    In post-WWII Laos, Vietnamese communists secretly commence to infiltrate the kingdom. They are countered by four dedicated Lao ‘moles’ who try to thwart these aims. Gurkha Colonel Jason Rance is unwittingly dragged into a confrontation between one of the Lao moles and a Thai spy and the mole gives him a ring as a reward for saving his life. During his appointment in Laos as military attaché, Rance ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • It Happens With Gurkhas

    Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015

    by J P Cross ...
    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 British Army. This anthology of articles from The Kukri, the Gurkha regimental journals, by J.P. Cross covers much of the past sixty years of their history, taking in the last days of the Second World War ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus