The rise of Japan: 1895-1910 -- The First World War and its aftermath: 1914-25 -- The Manchurian Crisis: 1931-35 -- The Second World War in the Far East: First phase, 1937-41 -- Japan's wartime diplomacy: 1941-45 -- Japan: The lost war and the peace -- China: the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-50 -- The problem of Korea: 1945- -- Truce in Indochina: 1954 --Free world security in the Far East.

Considers (76) H.R. 4548, (76) S. 1643.

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.