Forgotten armies : Britain's Asian empire and the war with Japan

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Forgotten armies : Britain's Asian empire and the war with Japan

Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

(Penguin books)(Penguin history)

Penguin, 2005

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Forgotten armies : Britain's Asian empire & the war with Japan

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Originally published: Allen Lane, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-534) and index

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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. Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and Southeast Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of 'forgotten armies' marching through the jungle battlefields, so many dying for causes swept away by the reality that emerged in 1945. Even as the British successfully fought back in the bloodiest battles in South and Southeast Asia's history, there was no going back to colonial rule.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA73382171
  • ISBN
    • 0140293310
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxxiii, 554 p., [16] p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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