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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... Villages and townships had become the basic units of administration while the towns and cities were almost unconnected satellites . Now , a link had been forged again between the army and Burmese national politics and between the villages ...
... Villages and townships had become the basic units of administration while the towns and cities were almost unconnected satellites . Now , a link had been forged again between the army and Burmese national politics and between the villages ...
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... villages who starved first . Those who died were ' the village washerman , cobbler , black- smith , tailor , mason , labourer and his wife and his dependants and children ' . These people were predominantly of low caste , of course ...
... villages who starved first . Those who died were ' the village washerman , cobbler , black- smith , tailor , mason , labourer and his wife and his dependants and children ' . These people were predominantly of low caste , of course ...
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... villages and attempted to get veiled women to visit them . One ploy was to send tanks into the villages of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province where they would cause an immediate stir and demonstrate the continuing power of the ...
... villages and attempted to get veiled women to visit them . One ploy was to send tanks into the villages of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province where they would cause an immediate stir and demonstrate the continuing power of the ...
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Escaping Colonialism I | 1 |
Journeys through Empire | 30 |
An End and a Beginning | 456 |
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