This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures.
Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper jointly wrote the highly praised Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-45 which is a prelude to this book.
Title: Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire
Author: Tim Harper, Christopher Bayly
ISBN: 9780141017389
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2008-01-31
Number of Pages: 720
Weight: 0.5399 kg
The story is told with a refreshing candour... [an] outstanding narrative account of the end of empire * , Richard Overy, author of THE DICTATORS *