Forgotten wars : freedom and revolution in Southeast Asia
Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper
Forgotten Wars, a sequel to the authors' acclaimed Forgotten Armies, is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people: the poor and bewildered caught up in India's Hindu-Muslim massacres; the peasant farmers ravaged by warfare between British forces and revolutionaries in Malaya; the Burmese minorities devastated by separatist revolt. Throughout, we are given a stunning portrait of societies poised between the hope of independence and the fear of strife. Forgotten Wars vividly brings to life the inescapable conflicts and manifold dramas that shaped today's Asia
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Year:
2007
Edition:
First Edition
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
728
ISBN 10:
0674021533
ISBN 13:
9780674021532
File:
PDF, 56.68 MB
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english, 2007