Book Review: ’Small Wars, Faraway Places’
09.23.2013 at 07:27am
Book Review: ’Small Wars, Faraway Places’ by Michael Burleigh. Review by Lawrence Freedman, Washington Post.
In the wake of the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the British, French and Dutch sought to pick up where they had left off in their Far Eastern colonies. They failed to appreciate just how much the aura of European supremacy, so carefully cultivated in order to control these distant territories, had been shattered forever by the Japanese onslaught of 1941-42. The attempt to reinstate the old order, and then defend it against popular uprisings, set them up for a series of painful humiliations…
