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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... front lines to answer a call from HQ staff . They then engaged him in a long dis- cussion about a certain committee of enquiry which was being planned . Witnesses heard the brigadier threaten to resign his commission with the words ...
... front lines to answer a call from HQ staff . They then engaged him in a long dis- cussion about a certain committee of enquiry which was being planned . Witnesses heard the brigadier threaten to resign his commission with the words ...
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... front had something to celebrate . Leo Amery , the secretary of state , visited the war front . He spoke to Gurkha troops in Urdu , revealing that it was ' a language I learned with my Ayah's [ nurse's ] milk nearly seventy years ago ...
... front had something to celebrate . Leo Amery , the secretary of state , visited the war front . He spoke to Gurkha troops in Urdu , revealing that it was ' a language I learned with my Ayah's [ nurse's ] milk nearly seventy years ago ...
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... front . The Japanese commanders believed that if Ba Maw's henchmen were put into positions in the BDA , it would become even less effective as a military force . They therefore protected Aung San's monopoly over the appointment of ...
... front . The Japanese commanders believed that if Ba Maw's henchmen were put into positions in the BDA , it would become even less effective as a military force . They therefore protected Aung San's monopoly over the appointment of ...
المحتوى
Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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administration Allied American Arakan Asian Assam Aung San Australian Ba Maw became began Bengal bombing Britain Buddhist Burma Burmese Calcutta camp campaign Changi Chiang Chin Peng China Chinese Churchill civil civilian colonial command December defence Delhi diary Dorman-Smith European evacuation February fighting forces front guerrilla hills Ibid Imperial Imphal independence Indian army Indian National Army Indian troops intelligence interview Japan Japanese occupation Johore jungle Kachin Kah Kee Kempeitai Khin Myo Chit Kuala Lumpur labour land large numbers later leader London Lushai Malay Malaya Malayan Communist Party Mandalay memoirs military minister Mountbatten Muslim Naga nationalist officers OIOC Penang peninsula Perak police political population propaganda railway Rangoon recruits refugees reported rice Road Shenton Thomas Singh soldiers Southeast Asia Stilwell Subhas Bose Sultan supplies Syonan Tan Kah Kee Teck Thailand Thakins town villages Wavell women wrote young