In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299127869 (129912786X)
Publish date: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Random House Trade
Edition language: English
Edition: Unabridged C driveRead by Michael PrichardVery stiff and dry.
Illuminating look at the occupation of Southeast Asia after WW2. As Gomer Pyle might say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" -- it wasn't the well organized model that our myths tell us it was. Outside of Japan, where there actually was a post-war occupation plan, it resembled our debacles in Iraq and ...