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First In Last Out - An Unconventional British Officer in Indo-China by John Phillip Cross

In 1970 The Economist described J P Cross as "...one of those gifted, dedicated eccentrics that the British Army has the habit of spawning." and Hailer Publishing is proud to republish his memoir of one of the lesser known tragedies of Asia - the fall of Laos.

John Cross provides a colorful account of two episodes in his extraordinary and unconventional career. At the end of WWII he was one of the "first in" in the counterinsurgency operations against the Vietminh, commanding a battalion of the very Japanese troops he had been sent to disarm. This story provides the backdrop to his return to Indo-China as British Defence Attache' to Laos between 1972 and 1973.

Cross sheds a unigue light on the conflict in Laos - a little known sideshow to the war in Vietnam. His mastery of the main languages of the region gave him unprecedented access to the high Laotian political circles.

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