About the book: 1968 / "Choice of Weapons" is a complex book. This is not only a novel about Malaya, although the situation of the colony is depicted in all its ugliness. This is a book about class struggle and its laws in the modern world. This is a book about the problem of “commitment”, which is relevant for the English intelligentsia, the highest form of which Ash considers serving revolutionary ideas. From a genre point of view, this is, first of all, a novel of views. Through the contours of the adventurous plot emerge the refined features of a novel-pamphlet, written in the form of an argument-dialogue. And the debate here is especially interesting because its participants are not ethereal shadows, but people who are written powerfully and psychologically convincingly. Their views are tested in the novel by life in extremely dramatic circumstances..