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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الصفحة xix
... Minister of Defence under Ba Maw , 1943-5 . President of Anti - Fascist People's Front Freedom League . Assassinated 1947 . Ayer , S. A. Propaganda and Information Minister in Subhas Bose's Government of Free India ; accompanied him on ...
... Minister of Defence under Ba Maw , 1943-5 . President of Anti - Fascist People's Front Freedom League . Assassinated 1947 . Ayer , S. A. Propaganda and Information Minister in Subhas Bose's Government of Free India ; accompanied him on ...
الصفحة xxiv
... Minister in Ba Maw's government 1943-5 ; AFPFL , 1945-6 . Became Prime Minister to lead Burmese independence on assassination of Aung San , 1947 . Onn bin Jaafar , Dato ( b . 1895 ) . Leading Malay of Johore . Worked as a food ...
... Minister in Ba Maw's government 1943-5 ; AFPFL , 1945-6 . Became Prime Minister to lead Burmese independence on assassination of Aung San , 1947 . Onn bin Jaafar , Dato ( b . 1895 ) . Leading Malay of Johore . Worked as a food ...
الصفحة xxvi
... Minister of Labour 1937. Minister of Supplies in Bengal Government during 1943 famine . Suzuki , Keiji , Colonel ( Burmese name Bo Mogyo ) . Founding member of Minami ... Minister and Minister of War from 1941-4 xxvi SOME KEY CHARACTERS.
... Minister of Labour 1937. Minister of Supplies in Bengal Government during 1943 famine . Suzuki , Keiji , Colonel ( Burmese name Bo Mogyo ) . Founding member of Minami ... Minister and Minister of War from 1941-4 xxvi SOME KEY CHARACTERS.
المحتوى
Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
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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