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Название: Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan Автор: Christopher Alan Bayly, Tim Harper Издательство: Penguin Books Год: 2005 Формат: pdf, epub Страниц: 684 Размер: 11,05 Мб Язык: английский
The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis. Within a few weeks in 1941-2 a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, almost effortlessly taking the impregnable fortress' of Singapore with its 80,000 strong garrison, and sweeping through South and Southeast Asia to the frontier of India itself.
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Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan 
