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Forgotten Wars

The End of Britain's Asian Empire

Tim Harper author Christopher Bayly author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:31st Jan '08

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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.

The story is told with a refreshing candour… [an] outstanding narrative account of the end of empire * , Richard Overy, author of THE DICTATORS *

ISBN: 9780141017389

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 40mm

Weight: 519g

720 pages