Colonies in Ruins

<p class=ql-align-justify>Colonies in Ruins is a collection of intriguing short-stories about foreign colonies of the Asia-Pacific region-British Malaya French Indochina the Dutch East Indies and the US Philippine Islands. For a very long time these colonies had generated fabulous wealth from mining and agriculture for their colonial masters but colonial life came to an end on December 8 1941 as they were each attacked by Japanese forces soon after the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was devastated. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Following three years of harsh Japanese occupation the clear focus of local people was to gain independence from foreign powers that tried to reclaim their former colonies. Hard-won battles and negotiations finally led to the emergence of Singapore Malaysia Vietnam Indonesia and the Philippines as new republics in the 1950s 60s and 70s. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Read about the men and women who helped make it all happen. </p>