Last post The end of empire in the Far East Tapa dura - 1997

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: John Murray, 1997. Cloth with dustjacket, 25 cm, 385 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0719553466. .

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

John Murray, 1997. 0719553466. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xi + 385, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions).

London: John Murray. As New in As New dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0719553466 . Black boards with bright Gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The dustjacket is Not price-clipped. NO Inscriptions or Marks. (xii) + 385 pp. Illustrated in b/w; 1 Map in b/w; Gl; ossary of Place Names; Bibliography; Index. An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright Near 'As New' copy. "John Keay's epic, expert study of the twenthieth-century demise of colonial rule in the Far East The names echo like the last long notes of a bugle call: Hiroshima, Dien Bien Phu, Tiananmen Square; MacArthur and Mountbatten; The Quiet American and Bridge over the River Kwai. In a twentieth-century welter of war, Depression and Communism four empires crumbled and the West was bundled out of the East. John Keay's acclaimed study of this imperial finale draws on contemporary sources ranging from Ho Chi Minh to Dirk Bogarde. The narrative swoops from the… Leer más