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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... officers were given sumptuous European dinners with turkey and champagne by Tan Cheng Lock . 76 The egalitarian ethos of the citizen army was anathema to British professional soldiers . " The global publicity of the fighting record of ...
... officers were given sumptuous European dinners with turkey and champagne by Tan Cheng Lock . 76 The egalitarian ethos of the citizen army was anathema to British professional soldiers . " The global publicity of the fighting record of ...
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... Officers ) were not themselves necessarily competent in either English or Urdu . Racial misunderstand- ing compounded the linguistic problems . Some of the British officers fell out with the men . One subaltern , reduced to fury by ...
... Officers ) were not themselves necessarily competent in either English or Urdu . Racial misunderstand- ing compounded the linguistic problems . Some of the British officers fell out with the men . One subaltern , reduced to fury by ...
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... officers resented the fact that a more senior man had not been anointed . When Fujiwara con- ferred on him the rank of general , this and other promotions were seen as debased , coming through , in A. M. Nair's words , ' the crazy ...
... officers resented the fact that a more senior man had not been anointed . When Fujiwara con- ferred on him the rank of general , this and other promotions were seen as debased , coming through , in A. M. Nair's words , ' the crazy ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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