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  • DEFENCE AND DECOLONISATION IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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    DEFENCE AND DECOLONISATION IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    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 th...

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  • FORGOTTEN CAPTIVES IN JAPANESE-OCCUPIED ASIA
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    FORGOTTEN CAPTIVES IN JAPANESE-OCCUPIED ASIA
    BLACKBURN, KEVIN / HACK, KARL
    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 locall...

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  • COLONIAL ARMIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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    COLONIAL ARMIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    RETTIG, TOBIAS / HACK, KARL
    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...

    $1,560.00

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  • DID SINGAPORE HAVE TO FALL?
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    DID SINGAPORE HAVE TO FALL?
    KARL HACK / KEVIN BLACKBURN
    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 q...

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