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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 Christopher Bayly
ISBN: 067401748X, 978-0674017481 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Belknap Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьIn the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian…
