Forgotten Wars
Subtitle: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: May 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780674021532
Subjects: Military - General; History - General History; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Modern - 20th Century; Asia - Southeast Asia; History / Southeast Asia; 1945-; 20th century; Asia; Colonies; Great Britain; Influence; Southeast Asia; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb -- and with it, the Japanese empire -- Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain's imperial might had never seemed stronger. Yet within a few violent years, British power in the region would crumble, and myriad independent nations would struggle into existence. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in these ravaged Asian lands but instead continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres. These years became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control"--Jacket.