Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

by C.A. Bayly and Tim Harper

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057074
• ISBN13: 9780674057074
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"