Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945Allen Lane, 2004 - 554 من الصفحات The 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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... Britain seemed imminent . Then came the announcement of the Japanese military pact with Germany and Italy , provoking the British into opening the Burma Road again , to the ill - concealed rage of the Japanese . " The British Empire was ...
... Britain seemed imminent . Then came the announcement of the Japanese military pact with Germany and Italy , provoking the British into opening the Burma Road again , to the ill - concealed rage of the Japanese . " The British Empire was ...
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... Britain , Sir Earle Page . Churchill broke the news to him that large - scale reinforcements would not be available for Malaya , and that the Middle East must have first call on resources . In the stormy days that followed Churchill ...
... Britain , Sir Earle Page . Churchill broke the news to him that large - scale reinforcements would not be available for Malaya , and that the Middle East must have first call on resources . In the stormy days that followed Churchill ...
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... Britain's eastern empire . These would make it possible for Britain's Indian army , at almost the last point of its existence , to become one of the most formidable fighting machines in the world , one capable of taking on and defeating ...
... Britain's eastern empire . These would make it possible for Britain's Indian army , at almost the last point of its existence , to become one of the most formidable fighting machines in the world , one capable of taking on and defeating ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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