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  • The Malayan Emergency

    Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire

    by Karl Hack ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    The Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level. Drawing on oral history, recent memoirs and declassified archival ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia

    Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941-1967

    by Karl Hack ...
    This book explains why British defence policy and practice emerged as it did in the period 1941-67, by looking at the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in the area. Its main focus is on the 1950s and the decolonisation era, but it argues that the plans and conditions of this period can only be understood by tracing them back to their origins in the fall of Singapore. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Tobias Rettig, Karl Hack ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management and decolonization.The journey covers perennial themes such as the recruitment, loyalty, and varied ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Did Singapore Have to Fall?

    Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress

    by Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack ...
    This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus on the role of Churchill, and on his understanding of the guns and Singapore's fortifications, makes the Fortress central to understanding why and how Singapore fell as it did. The book includes a range of quotations that give ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia

    Edited by Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and wide as a captive labour force, civilian internees were generally detained locally.This book explores ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Reinterpreting Australia's greatest prime minister

    by John K Edwards ...
    John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics. In the Australian story he is the recovering alcoholic and the accidental prime minister who saved Australia from invasion by Japan, overrode the opposition of Churchill and Roosevelt to bring home Australian troops from the Middle East, and created the ... Read more

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  • Red Star Over Malaya

    Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946

    by Boon Kheng Cheah ...
    Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Fighting the Mau Mau

    The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency

    by Dr Huw Bennett ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45

    by Ooi Keat Gin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’. This book surveys Borneo under Western colonialism, examines pre-war Japanese interests in Borneo, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Battle Within

    POWs in Post-War Australia

    by Christina Twomey ...
    "Headaches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return." —Robert, A Returned POWThis landmark and compelling book follows the stories of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the moment they were released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Drawing on the records of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950

    Nationalism, Empire and State-Building

    by Ooi Keat Gin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book discusses the various factions and powers, both local and international, who were contending for control in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942

    by Ronald McCrum ...
    The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and closely examined episode. But far less attention has been paid to the role of the colonial governor and his staff during this period, an oversight Ronald McCrum corrects with this insightful history. As McCrum shows, the failure of the civil authorities in conjunction with the military to fully ... Read more

    $12.39 USD