E. Bruce Reynolds

Thailand's Secret War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an absorbing account of secret operations and political intrigue in wartime Thailand. During World War II Free Thai organisations co-operated with Allied intelligence agencies in an effort to rescue their nation from the consequences of its 1941 alliance with Japan. They largely succeeded despite internal differences and the conflicting interests and policies of their would-be-allies, China, Great Britain and the United States. London's determination to punish Thailand placed the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) at a serious disadvantage in its rivalry with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The US State Department, in contrast, strongly supported OSS operations in Thailand, viewing them as a vehicle for promoting American political and economic influence in mainland Southeast Asia. Declassification of the records of the OSS and the SOE permits full revelation of this complex story of heroic action and political intrigue.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9780521836012
• ISBN-10: 0521836018
• Artikelnr.: 14676537

Autorenporträt

E. Bruce Reynolds is Associate Chair in the Department of History at San José State University. His previous publications include Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance, 1940-1945 (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on names and transliteration; Prologue; 1. The origins of the Free Thai Movement; 2. The China tangle; 3. Chamkat and the Allies; 4. Showdown in Friendship Valley; 5. Frustrated hopes; 6. Contact at last; 7. The OSS commits to Pridi; 8. Pridi's bid for national redemption; 9. Arming and training the underground; 10. The end game; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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List of illustrations
List of maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on names and transliteration
Prologue
1. The origins of the Free Thai Movement
2. The China tangle
3. Chamkat and the Allies
4. Showdown in Friendship Valley
5. Frustrated hopes
6. Contact at last
7. The OSS commits to Pridi
8. Pridi's bid for national redemption
9. Arming and training the underground
10. The end game
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.

Rezensionen

Review of the hardback: '... the tangled history of the covert operations in Thailand carried out by the SOE, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Free Thai Underground, which is meticulously unravelled by E. Bruce Reynolds in Thailand's Secret War.' Tribune