Forgotten Wars
The End of Britain's Asian Empire
Allen Lane (Publisher)
Published on 25. January 2007
Book
Hardback
704 pages
978-0-7139-9782-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 defeat scarred everywhere in the region - from the violent British occupation of south Vietnam to the horrors of Partition in India; from the hasty retreat from Burma to the Malayan 'Emergency', one of the first and most dramatic counter-insurgency wars of the twentieth century. "Forgotten Wars" explores the lives of politicians, soldiers and ordinary people as the travails of decolonisation merged with the hatreds of the Cold War.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Illustrations
16pp
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 52 mm
Weight
1228 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7139-9782-8 (9780713997828)
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Persons
Christopher Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and winner of last year's Wolfson Prize for lifetime achievement. Tim Harper is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Forgotten Armies was published by Penguin in 2004.