The year was 1942. Halfway across the world, the British Army was getting annihilated. In the dense, suffocating jungles of Malaya, a well-oiled Japanese war machine was chewing through Allied divisions like they were paper. But one unit refused to die. They were called the "Jungle Beasts" – a phantom battalion that roamed behind enemy lines, hit hard, and vanished into the green abyss. They operated in small, autonomous kill-teams. They used ancient armoured cars as mobile strongpoints. They were the SAS of the Far East, years before the SAS officially existed. This is the story of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and the ghost unit that refused to surrender. The Man Who Saw It Coming [citations: 1, 2, 4, 9] While the rest of the British Army in Malaya was still sunbathing in their shorts,  Lt. Colonel Ian Stewart  was running his troops through a private hell. Stewart was a tactical visionary who understood that the jungle wasn't a barrier. It was a  covered a...