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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955

byRonald Spector

Ronald Spector chronicles the violent decade after Japan's 1945 surrender, when peace in Europe contrasted with decolonization, revolution, civil war, and massacre across Asia. China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, Malaya, and other regions became battlegrounds involving local movements, returning colonial powers, new states, and Cold War rivals. The book connects conflicts often told separately and follows civilians as well as soldiers and leaders. Spector shows that World War II did not truly end everywhere at once; in Asia, imperial collapse opened a struggle whose borders and political consequences still shape the present.

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781324064442