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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... China for many years . China was a backward nation ... we felt Japan should go there and use Japanese technology and leadership to make China a better country . " The Great Depression of the 1930s added further economic justifications ...
... China for many years . China was a backward nation ... we felt Japan should go there and use Japanese technology and leadership to make China a better country . " The Great Depression of the 1930s added further economic justifications ...
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... Chinese trading communities in Southeast Asia . The connections had often been made by Chinese overseas traders who exchanged China silk or tea for Burmese jade , which was greatly prized in the Middle Kingdom . The Chinese were very ...
... Chinese trading communities in Southeast Asia . The connections had often been made by Chinese overseas traders who exchanged China silk or tea for Burmese jade , which was greatly prized in the Middle Kingdom . The Chinese were very ...
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... Chinese ' capitalists ' plundering their country . The massive graft and corruption surrounding the Burma Road to China had swelled Chinese business in Burma and made it fat . Chinese merchants began to buy up land and houses and to ...
... Chinese ' capitalists ' plundering their country . The massive graft and corruption surrounding the Burma Road to China had swelled Chinese business in Burma and made it fat . Chinese merchants began to buy up land and houses and to ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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