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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... peninsula . But this meant securing an area the size of England itself , with few natural barriers to stall a determined and well - prepared adversary . British soldiers tended to think of the peninsula as an impenetrable jungle : it ...
... peninsula . But this meant securing an area the size of England itself , with few natural barriers to stall a determined and well - prepared adversary . British soldiers tended to think of the peninsula as an impenetrable jungle : it ...
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... peninsula . his Shenton Thomas's initial reaction to the landings would later haunt memory : ' I suppose you'll shove the little men off ' , he is said to have commented.26 The British had been blinded by racial assumptions : that the ...
... peninsula . his Shenton Thomas's initial reaction to the landings would later haunt memory : ' I suppose you'll shove the little men off ' , he is said to have commented.26 The British had been blinded by racial assumptions : that the ...
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... peninsula had become ' Malai ' . A military command structure was grafted onto the pre - war Malay States , and whilst civilian governors were appointed to them , they were subordi- nate to the army . Watanabe's policy was formally to ...
... peninsula had become ' Malai ' . A military command structure was grafted onto the pre - war Malay States , and whilst civilian governors were appointed to them , they were subordi- nate to the army . Watanabe's policy was formally to ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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