End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World Opium When France laid claim to

When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina

000 hours on live television across networks like the BBC

David Chandler is Professor Emeritus of History at Monash University

Companion volume highlights

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End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World Opium When France laid claim toEdited by David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb, and Li Narangoa Aiming to balance the focus on European events in global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II, End of Empire focuses on a brief, 100 day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce between Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were