Forgotten Wars_ Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia - Christopher Bayly [392]
’s Waterloo
A new world order?
6. 1946: One Empire Unravels, Another Is Born
The killing begins
Britain’s terminal crisis in Burma
The burial of the dead
Business as usual in Malaya
The last days of the Raj
The crescent fragments: Bengal divided
Tragedy in Rangoon
Disaster approaches
8. 1947: Malaya on the Brink
The crescent fragments: orphans of empire
Malaya’s forgotten regiments
The strange disappearance of Mr Wright
‘Beware, the danger from the mountain’
A people’s constitution
9. 1948: A Bloody Dawn
Boys’ Day in Burma
The genesis of communist rebellion