Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis. Within a few weeks in 1941-2 a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, almost effortlessly taking the impregnable fortress' of Singapore with its 80,000 strong garrison, and sweeping through South and Southeast Asia to the frontier of India itself. This revolutionary, absolutely gripping book brings to life the entire experience of South and Southeast Asia in this extraordinary period, telling the story from an Indian, Burmese, Chinese or Malay perspective as much as from that of the British or Japanese. |
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| العنوان | Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 |
| المؤلفون | Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper |
| الناشر | Allen Lane, 2004 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0713994630, 9780713994636 |
| عدد الصفحات | 554 من الصفحات |
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