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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... fighting with Chiang Kai Shek against Japanese ; leader of the air defence of Burma , 1942 . Chin Peng ( b . 1924 ) ... fighting Japan since 1936 ; drawn into fighting in Burma 1942 to keep Burma Road open . Pressed for Allied campaign ...
... fighting with Chiang Kai Shek against Japanese ; leader of the air defence of Burma , 1942 . Chin Peng ( b . 1924 ) ... fighting Japan since 1936 ; drawn into fighting in Burma 1942 to keep Burma Road open . Pressed for Allied campaign ...
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... fighting general . In his diary he wrote : I started off the Marco Polo Incident which broadened out into the China Incident and then expanded until it turned into the great East Asian War . If I push into India now , by my own efforts ...
... fighting general . In his diary he wrote : I started off the Marco Polo Incident which broadened out into the China Incident and then expanded until it turned into the great East Asian War . If I push into India now , by my own efforts ...
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... fighting against us ' . ' Japanese officers confessed to these war crimes when they were in detention in Rangoon and Singapore later in the war . By then , many of the main perpetrators had already died in Allied bombing or in fighting ...
... fighting against us ' . ' Japanese officers confessed to these war crimes when they were in detention in Rangoon and Singapore later in the war . By then , many of the main perpetrators had already died in Allied bombing or in fighting ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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