Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper, Senior Lecturer in History Fellow Tim Harper

Harvard University Press, 2005 - 555 من الصفحات

In 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 world.

More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.

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معاينة المستخدمين  - setnahkt - LibraryThing

A pleasant surprise. Ordered sight-unseen; I figured from the title it would be about the Malaya campaign, the battles in Burma, Imphal and Kohima, and the final Japanese retreat. As it turns out ...

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معاينة المستخدمين  - Shrike58 - LibraryThing

Bayly & Harper are at their best writing about the social situation in Britain's Asian holdings on the verge of the deluge, on the initial period of Japanese occupation, and on how the subject ...

المحتوى

• Escaping Colonialism: 1
• AUNG SANS FAR EASTERN ODYSSEY: 9
• SIGNOR MAZZOTTA FLEES TO BERLIN: 15
• MR TAN KAH KEE VISITS MAO: 19
• Journeys through Empire: 30
• A MALAYAN PASTORALE: 37
• THE NEW WORLD OF SINGAPORE: 50
• MALAISE: 59
• 1941 Last of the Indian and Burmese Days: 71
• INDIA ON THE BRINK: 72
• INDIAN POLITICS AS USUAL?: 78
• BURMA UNREADY: 81
• THE WORLD OF THE HILLS AND THE TRIBES: 83
• DORMANSMITH REACHES HIS BACKWATER: 85
• BURMESE AND OTHERS: 89
• THE GOVERNOR AND THE POLITICIANS: 96
• 1942 A Very British Disaster: 106
• THE ARROW LEAVES THE BOW: 113
• THE BATTLE OF MALAYA: 126
• THE MODERN POMPEIIANS: 131
• FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: 144
• 1942 Debacle in Burma: 156
• FROM SCORCHED EARTH TO GREEN HELL: 167
• BURMAS FALSE DAWN: 178
• DEATH OF THE INNOCENTS: 181
• WOULD INDIA HOLD?: 190
• THE LUSHAI LEVIES: 197
• THE NAGAS THE KACHINS AND THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS: 202
• AN UNNOTICED TURNING POINT: 206
• 1942 The Abyss and the Way Back: 208
• THE NEW MALAI: 217
• BURMA IN LATE 1942: 230
• INDIA ABLAZE: 244
• THE FORGOTTEN ARMIES MOBILIZE: 253
• 1943 Valleys of the Shadow of Death: 269
• UNEASY ALLIES: 270
• ANOTHER FIASCO IN ARAKAN: 272
• INDIA IN THE DOLDRUMS: 276
• THE GREAT STARVATION: 282
• THE SLOW FIGHT BACK BEGINS: 291
• 1943 Personal Wars: 307
• THE SPIRIT OF ASIA AND THE MALAY NATION: 315
• THE SECOND COMING OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY: 321
• LIFE IN THE TIME OF TAPIOCA: 327
• LIFE WITHOUT SALT: 336
• WAR BY PROXY: 343
• TOKYO CAIRO AND TEHRAN: 356
• 1944 The Pivot of the Fighting: 360
• INDIA ON THE OFFENSIVE: 362
• IMPHAL AND KOHIMA: 370
• THE POLITICS OF WAR: 383
• JAPANS FORGOTTEN ARMY: 388
• 1944 The Nemesis of Greater East Asia: 393
• HEROISM AND MURDER IN THE HILLS: 394
• THE CRUMBLING OF FREE BURMA: 396
• ROADS TO THE DEATH RAILWAY: 405
• SILENT ARMIES: 409
• THE PENINSULAR WAR: 414
• NEW BALLS AT WIMBLEDON: 419
• 1945 Freedoms Won and Lost: 423
• INDIA MOBILIZED: 424
• BA MAWS LAST STAND: 427
• AUNG SANS REVOLT: 433
• RANGOON FALLS AGAIN: 435
• THE FADING LIGHT OF THE NEW ASIA: 448
• August 1945 An End and a Beginning: 456
• FINAL JOURNEYS DOWN THE CRESCENT: 457
• FORGOTTEN ARMIES FORGOTTEN WARS: 462
• Notes: 465
• Bibliography: 517
• Index: 535

نبذة عن المؤلف

Christopher Alan Bayly was born on May 18, 1945 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom. He graduated from St Antony's College. He was the pre-eminent historian of India and the British Empire and a pioneer of the field of global history. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including The Local Roots of Indian Politics; Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars; Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire; Imperial Meridian; Empire and Information; The Origins of Nationality in South Asia; The Birth of the Modern World; and Recovering Liberties. In 2005, he received the Wolfson prize for history for his entire body of work. In 2007, he was the first scholar to be knighted "for services to history outside of Europe." He died of a heart attack on April 18, 2015 at the age of 69.

Christopher Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St. Catherine's College.

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
• المؤلفون: Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper, Senior Lecturer in History Fellow Tim Harper
• الإصدار: مزود بصور توضيحية, معاد طباعته, تمت مراجعته
• الناشر: Harvard University Press, 2005
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 067401748X, 9780674017481
• عدد الصفحات: 555 من الصفحات