Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (repost)
Christopher Bayly, "Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia"
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | ISBN: 0674057074 | 2010 | MOBI | 704 pages | 1.9 MB
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | ISBN: 0674057074 | 2010 | MOBI | 704 pages | 1.9 MB
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.