Tag: Japanese expansion in southeast Asia

• Know Your History: Indochina 1945 from a Page in my Novel

  I’m going to change up the “know your history” post this time around and use a direct quote from my new novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, to emphasize the strange WWII ties which existed in Indochina in 1945. Here’s a short paragraph from the chapter entitled “The Strange Ways of the Universe”: On a cosmic…

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  July 16, 2014

  History & Culture, Vietnam

  Chinese communists, Chinese Nationalists, Free French, French Indochina, Indochina, Japanese expansion in southeast Asia, OSS, Vichy, Viet Minh