Forgotten armies:the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
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Group Author: | ; |
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | 2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xxxiii, 555 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
067401748X (cloth) 9780674017481 (cloth) |
Index Number: | K330 |
CLC: |
K330.5 K152 |
Call Number: | K152/B359 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-534) and index. Escaping colonialism -- Journeys through Empire -- 1941: Last of the Indian and Burmese days -- 1942: A very British disaster -- 1942: Debacle in Burma -- 1942: The abyss and the way back -- 1943: Valleys of the shadow of death -- 1943: Personal wars -- 1944: The pivot of the fighting -- 1944: The nemesis of greater East Asia -- 1945: Freedoms won and lost -- August 1945: an end and a beginning |