Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan - Hardcover

Bayly, Christopher; Harper, Tim

 
9780713994636: Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0713994630 ISBN 13: 9780713994636
Verlag: Allen Lane, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Tim Harper is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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Verlag
Allen Lane
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0713994630
ISBN 13 
9780713994636
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Anzahl der Seiten
592
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