Forgotten Armies : The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
Editorial Reviews
Review
New York Times Book Review : A work at once scholarly and panoramic.
--Benjamin Schwarz
Sunday Telegraph : [C]asts new and important light on a shadowy aspect of the Second World War, which deserves to be better understood.
--Max Hastings
The Guardian : This is a spectacular book: in its scope, encyclopaedic knowledge, understanding of southeast Asia.
--Martin Jacques
Washington Post Book World : ...superb at evoking the wretchedness of this region, at conjuring the hardships its people suffered...
--Kenneth M. Pollack
Atlantic Monthly : [T]his is a brilliant marriage of social and military history and a work of extraordinary literary merit.
--Benjamin Schwarz
Review
This is a masterful account of the fate of British Asia during the Second World War. Far more than military or political history, the book presents a fascinating account of how individual lives and social relations changed from the heyday of the British raj to the rise and fall of Japan's Asian empire...The principal players are Britons, Japanese, Indians, Burmese, Malays, Chinese, Koreans, and other ethnic groups who established sharp social and racial distinctions among themselves and developed their own \"forgotten armies.\" In the final analysis, as the authors show, it was the ordinary people of Asia who were emerging, by war's end, as the new masters of their own destinies. By focusing sharply on the \"periphery,\" Bayly and Harper make a major contribution to the study of imperialism.
--Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University
A work of enormous scope, scholarly depth and sophistication, excellently written, Forgotten Armies paints a memorable portrait of how the old Imperial British Crescent from Calcutta to Singapore was swept away by the storms of war and social upheaval. Forgotten Armies now takes its rightful place as the definitive history of the Second World War in Southeast Asia.
--Roger Spiller, George C. Marshall Professor of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Forgotten Armies is an original and comprehensive account of one of the least understood aspects of the War with Japan. The book will be a worthy successor and complement to Christopher Thorne's classic Allies of a Kind.
--Ronald Spector, author of Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
Forgotten Armies : The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945,Christopher Bayly,Tim Harper,Belknap Press,067402219X,Asia - General,Europe - Great Britain - General,History,History - Military / War,Military,Military - World War II,ASIA,Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War,History / Military / World War II,Second World War, 1939-1945
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