Jenny Eclair is an award-winning comedian and novelist, regularly seen on the TV programme ‘Grumpy Old Women’. Jenny was a ‘Forces’ child, born in post-colonial Malaysia while her father, Derek Hargreaves, was posted there.Derek, now 82, was first posted to Malaya in 1952 as a lieutenant fighting the communist uprising in the jungle. Jenny wanted to retrace his footsteps and unravel his part in the Malayan Emergency, a 12-year guerrilla war fought by Malayan Chinese communists against the British. As military strategy turned to winning over the Malayans, the Emergency was to become known as the ‘Battle for Hearts and Minds’.