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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... began to turn in October 1942 when a Kachin jemadar ( sergeant ) just returned from the Indian army began to organize more effective resistance amongst the poorly equipped levies . 124 Rifles , shotguns and flintlocks were brought out ...
... began to turn in October 1942 when a Kachin jemadar ( sergeant ) just returned from the Indian army began to organize more effective resistance amongst the poorly equipped levies . 124 Rifles , shotguns and flintlocks were brought out ...
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... began to hatch plans for a general rising in the event of a Japanese breakthrough . But these local political successes were offset by the grave situation of Axis forces even before the advance on Imphal ground to a halt . The Japanese ...
... began to hatch plans for a general rising in the event of a Japanese breakthrough . But these local political successes were offset by the grave situation of Axis forces even before the advance on Imphal ground to a halt . The Japanese ...
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... began to crumble and their troops , out of food and ammu- nition , began to fall back southward towards Imphal . There were , of course , many episodes of British heroism and grit , notably the battle on the Kohima tennis court in May ...
... began to crumble and their troops , out of food and ammu- nition , began to fall back southward towards Imphal . There were , of course , many episodes of British heroism and grit , notably the battle on the Kohima tennis court in May ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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