The British in the Far East
Author | : George Woodcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Woodcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Fennell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 967 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107030951 |
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Author | : F. S. V. Donnison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Henry Norman (bart.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : East Asia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Woodcock |
Publisher | : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Norman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : East Asia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raffi Gregorian |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2002-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230287166 |
This book argues that postwar Britain's 'imperial over-extension' has been exaggerated. Britain developed and adjusted its defence strategy based upon the perceived Communist threat and available resources. It was especially successful at adapting to meet the strategic and resource challenges from the Far East from 1947-54. There British and Gurkha forces were deployed only in contingencies that threatened vital British interests, while the U.S. and Commonwealth allies were persuaded to accept key wartime missions, thus preserving Britain's ability to fight in Western Europe.
Author | : Lanxin Xiang |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781563244605 |
Examines the rivalry between the US and Britain over China between World War II and the Korean War, a link that has been neglected by scholars distracted by the dominant theme of the Cold War. Finds that the two governments did not collaborate in any significant manner, that the succession from one imperial power to another was not particularly friendly, that the British considered the US fetish for antagonizing Mao Tse Tung misguided and dangerous, that the US missed its chance to consolidate power in the region and began the slide to Viet Nam in 1950, and that Britain had no choice by then but to tie their wagon to the wayward US in order to salvage the remnants of British imperial spoil. Paper edition (unseen), $25. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Martin Brayley |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781841762388 |
The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that units supplied from the air could operate deep behind enemy lines. In 1944 General Slim's troops decisively smashed Japan's last offensive at Imphal and Kohima; and over the next year they drove the enemy relentlessly back through Burma, reducing them to starving fugitives by the final victory in August 1945. This concise summary of Britain's Far East campaigns of World War II is illustrated with many rare photographs, and eight detailed colour plates.
Author | : Martin Brayley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2013-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147280452X |
The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that units supplied from the air could operate deep behind enemy lines. In 1944 General Slim's troops decisively smashed Japan's last offensive at Imphal and Kohima; and over the next year they drove the enemy relentlessly back through Burma, reducing them to starving fugitives by the final victory in August 1945. This concise summary of Britain's Far East campaigns is illustrated with many rare photographs, and eight detailed colour plates.