The Forgotten Front: Burma and the Fight for Asia - Softcover

Varquel, Arjun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9377940761 ISBN 13: 9789377940768

Verlag: VIJ Books, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The Burma front was where global strategy met its most unforgiving tests. Cut off from easy sea access, threaded with mountains and dense forests, and battered by monsoon, it forced every combatant to confront a hard question: could their grand designs for Asia be sustained at the end of such fragile lines of communication? The Forgotten Front: Burma and the Fight for Asia re-centres the Burma campaign as a pivotal struggle over logistics, health, and coalition cohesion rather than simply a backdrop to events in Europe or the Pacific. Moving from pre-war geography to the postwar settlement, Arjun Varquel traces how Japanese and Allied planners tried to impose their will on a landscape that resisted movement, punished neglect of disease, and magnified small tactical errors. He follows British, Indian, Chinese, American, and Burmese actors as they adapted to jungle warfare, experimented with air supply, and wrestled with the politics of sustaining a diverse coalition. Alongside operations at Imphal, Kohima, and along the Irrawaddy, the book examines refugees, coerced labour, and the wider civilian impact war had across towns, villages, and borderlands. Written for students of history and international relations, military professionals, and curious general readers alike, The Forgotten Front offers a clear framework for thinking about coalition operations and operational logistics in hostile environments. It shows how decisions about roads, airstrips, medical units, and intelligence networks often mattered as much as battlefield tactics. Readers will come away with a sharper sense of why Burma mattered to wartime Asia, how it shaped postcolonial trajectories, and what its demanding terrain still has to teach about the possibilities and limits of power projected over great distance.

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Arjun Varquel writes and teaches about empire, war, and political change in the modern world. His work is driven by a desire to understand how large structures of power intersect with the everyday decisions of individuals and communities. He is particularly interested in the ways that crisis moments - wars, economic shocks, sudden regime changes - reshape ideas of legitimacy and justice for both rulers and ruled.Varquel's engagement with colonial history began in family stories about relatives who had served, resisted, or simply tried to survive under shifting imperial regimes. Those accounts, full of ambiguity rather than easy heroism, inform his sensitivity to moral complexity in the archive. He has spent many years reading across imperial and national historiographies, drawn especially to scholarship that connects African and Asian experiences in a single analytical frame.In his writing, Varquel aims to make dense historical debates accessible without flattening them. He is committed to showing how arguments about the past matter for how we understand present inequalities and global politics. The Colonial War Within a World War reflects that commitment, offering readers a structured way to think about decolonisation as a process forged in the heat of total war, rather than as a tidy postscript to it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: VIJ Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9377940761
• ISBN 13: 9789377940768
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 654
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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