My book serves C' bridge historians as source

I certainly feel proud and very honoured after seeing with my own eyes that my 'Little Red Book', From Pacific War to Merdeka - Reminiscences of Abdullah CD, Rashid Maidin, Suriani Abdullah & Abu Samah (Kuala Lumpur, SIRD, 2005) is listed as an item in the bibliography of the newly released Forgotten Wars - The End of Britain's Asian Empire (London, Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007) authored by two prominent historians of the Cambridge University.

The two British scholars specialising in the history of the British Empire are Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper who jointly wrote Forgotten Army: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (London, Penguin, 2004). Harper is also the author of The End of Empire and the Making of Modern Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

( I have never met Bayly or Harper before in Malaysia or anywhere else in the world and I have never been to U.K. although I have been dreaming for a long time to pay a visit to the Great Motherland of the English language and of the British Broadcasting Corporation ).

Originally written for publication in malaysiakini, the series of interviews with the Malay/Muslim veterans of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) were compiled into a book with the fact-checking assistance provided by Malaysia's leading historian, Dr. Cheah Boon Kheng. From Pacific War to Merdeka - Reminiscences of Abdullah CD, Rashid Maidin, Suriani Abdullah & Abu Samah was first launched by a veteran of the British Army and Special Branch, Leon Comber.

It was in the interviews that Rashid Maidin (1917-2006) entrusted me to convey to our nation and people of all races one of his very rare and last public statements in his fearless and selfless life: " As a poor boy born in a backward kampung in colonial time and without sufficient formal education, I am still very grateful to the Party which has transformed me into a man who knows politics and the world in all its complexities, and also trusted me for so many years".

Launching of Dr. Abraham' s new history book