E. Bruce Reynolds

Thailand's Secret War

OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An absorbing account of Allied secret operations and political intrigue in wartime Thailand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 779g
• ISBN-13: 9780521143370
• ISBN-10: 0521143373
• Artikelnr.: 30204760

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