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books:

Forgotten Wars
Christopher/ Harper, Tim Bayly

Harvard Univ Pr, 2007

Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

2 reviews
Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper

Belknap Press, 2007

One of the most important books
In this brilliant book the entire story of Post-War Asia is finally revealed. For sixty years the horrors of Post-War Asia have been largely ignored. Instead history of Asia after the war has focused on Vietnam, which only began in the 1950s with French involvement. This book wants to re-focus our attention on the other half billion people in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma(Myanmar) and ...

Die Geburt der modernen Welt
Christopher Bayly

Campus Verlag GmbH, 2006

Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870 (College & ...
Christopher Alan Bayly, A. C. A. Bayly

Oxford University Press, 1998

This volume traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Moghul dominion to the consolidation of Britain's empire in India following the 1857 'mutiny'.

Forgotten Armies

11 reviews
Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper

Allen Lane, 2004

The Agony of Retreat
"Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia" The War in Vietnam was intensified in part because of the protests, including self-immolation, of Buddhist monks. In l963, a 67-year-old Buddhist Monk, Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire at a busy interchange in Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam. Duc was protesting the repressive measures of the US-backed Thieu regime. For the next twelve ...