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Vietnam and the unravelling of empire = General Gracey in Asia 1942-1951 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vietnam and the unravelling of empire/ T. O. Smith.
Reminder of title:	General Gracey in Asia 1942-1951 /
Author:	Smith, T. O.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	208 p. :1 ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949. -
Subject:	Asia - Civilization -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137448717 (electronic bk.) :

Vietnam and the unravelling of empire = General Gracey in Asia 1942-1951 /
Smith, T. O.

Vietnam and the unravelling of empireGeneral Gracey in Asia 1942-1951 /[electronic resource] :T. O. Smith. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 208 p. :1 ill.

Electronic book text.

Introduction 1. The Prelude: Burma 1942-5 2. The Power Vacuum: Vietnam 1945 3. The Sideshow: Cambodia 1945 4. The Enforcement: Indo-China 1945-6 5. The Aftermath: Bengal and Kashmir 1946-51 Conclusion.

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The Vietnam War and Indian independence devastated British policy towards Asia. The Labour Government failed to understand its commitments. Yet some senior British officers were prepared to work alongside Asian nationalism in order to secure British interests. This created a radical local fusion of imperial, diplomatic and humanitarian policies.Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire examines the British management of political violence at the end of the Second World War. In doing so, the book demonstrates the way in which the Vietnam War and Indian independence had a devastating effect upon British policy towards Asia. The Labour Government failed to understand the complexity of its commitments and it was unable to evolve a coherent policy towards these crises. At the same time, some senior British officers were prepared to work alongside Asian nationalism in order to secure British interests. Their actions created a radical local fusion of imperial, diplomatic and humanitarian policies. The most controversial of these officers was General Sir Douglas Gracey who commanded the British liberation forces deployed in southern Indo-China at the outbreak of the Vietnam War and later served as the Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army during the Kashmir Conflict.

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T.O. Smith is Associate Professor of History at Huntington University, USA, specialising in decolonisation and political violence in South and Southeast Asia. His previous publications include Britain and the Origins of the Vietnam War: UK Policy in Indo-China 1943-50 (2007) and Churchill, America and Vietnam, 1941-45 (2011). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

ISBN: 1137448717 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Personal Names:

1011078
Gracey, Douglas David,
1894-1964.Subjects--Corporate Names:

1008654
Great Britain
--History.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1011079
India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1008691
Asia
--Civilization

LC Class. No.: DS546.5.G74 / S67 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 959.05092

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