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Forgotten Armies : The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
Category: History
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 fe ...Show more
Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Following the immense praise for Bayly and Harper's "Forgotten Armies", its authors now tackle with the same verve, controversy and wit the even more contentious issue of how new nations were born from the wreck of Britain's empire in southeast Asia. The almost continual fighting that followed Japan's d ...Show more
Forgotten Wars : The End of Britain's Asian Empire by Christopher Bayly
Category: History
This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British inte ...Show more
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