Forgotten Wars

The End of Britain's Asian Empire

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Summary

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.

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

About the authors

Tim Harper

Tim Harper is Professor of the History of Southeast Asia at the University of Cambridge, a Director of the Centre for History and Economics, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He was the co-author with Christopher Bayly of two landmark Penguin books on the British Empire's experience of the Second World War in south and southeast Asia: Forgotten Armies and Forgotten Wars.

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Christopher Bayly