Battle for Malaya (eBook)

The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942

Kaushik Roy (Autor)

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2019
296 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04424-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Utilizing both official war office records and unofficial memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories, Roy presents a synthesis of history from the top with history from below and provides a thick narrative of operations interwoven with tactical analysis of the Battle for Malaya.

1. This book examines an important World War II battle in Asia between Allied forces and the Japanese. The fate of Singapore was decided in Malaya.
2. British surrender at Singapore marked the beginning of the end of British Empire in Asia
3. Kaushik Roy demonstrates that the fall of Singapore to the Japanese force was not inevitable. This book shows that the defeat of the British Commonwealth force in Malaya was the product of erroneous tactcis, faulty doctrine and inadequate training.

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The historian and author of The Army in British India analyzes the British Indian Army's devastating loss to the Imperial Japanese during WWII. The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in Asia, especially in India. Japan's successful tactics in Malaya rapid marches, wide outflanking movement along difficult terrain, nocturnal attacks, and roadblocks would be repeated in Burma in 1942 43. Until the Allied command evolved adequate countermeasures, Japanese soldiers remained supreme in the field. Looking beyond the failures of command, Kaushik Roy focuses on tactics of the ground battle that unfolded in Malaya between December 1941 and February 1942. His analysis includes the organization of the Indian Army the largest portion of Commonwealth troops and compares it to the British and Australian armies that fought side by side with Indian soldiers. Utilizing both official war office records and personal memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories, Roy presents a comprehensive narrative of operations interwoven with tactical analysis of the Battle for Malaya.

Autor

lt;P>Kaushik Roy is Associate Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India and Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He has written or edited 19 books, including most recently War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849, Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia, and The Army in British India.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Prelude to Invasion
2. The Imperial Armies
3. Retreat from the Beaches
4. Defeat along the Slim and Muar Rivers
5. Disaster at Johore
6. Endgame at Singapore
7. Assessment
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Twentieth-Century Battles
• Zusatzinfo: 13 maps
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Commonwealth troops • History • History, Military History, World War 2, Indian, Indian Army, Japanese Army, Malaya, Commonwealth troops, • Indian • Indian Army • japanese army • Malaya • military history • World War 2
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04424-3 / 0253044243
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04424-2 / 9780253044242