War, Conflict and Security in Japan and Asia Pacific, 1941-1952
Biographical note
Louis Allen (1922–1991) was Reader in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Durham (1961–91). He served during the war as a Japanese-speaking Intelligence officer in India and Burma, and after the war in Malaya, Thailand and French Indo-China (Vietnam). His books include Sittang (1973), Singapore 1941–42 and Burma: The Lonest War (1984).
Readership
Professional and scholarly
Reviews
"War, Conflict and Security in Japan and Asia-Pacific, 1941-52: The Writings of Louis Allen, edited by Ian Nish and Mark Allen, is a collection full of fascination and interest. The volume draws together, as separate chapters, 24 of Allen's articles and papers, some previously unpublished, and adds substantially to his several books. Its focus is history broadly defined.
Readers of Allen will be familiar with the grace and fluidity of his style, a sharp appreciation of detail and clarity of argument. However, probably few, even of those studying the Asia-Pacific war, will have read the majority of Allen's writings chosen by Nish and Allen (his son)..."
Gregg Huff, South East Asia Research, Vol. 19 No. 4 (December 2011)
Readers of Allen will be familiar with the grace and fluidity of his style, a sharp appreciation of detail and clarity of argument. However, probably few, even of those studying the Asia-Pacific war, will have read the majority of Allen's writings chosen by Nish and Allen (his son)..."
Gregg Huff, South East Asia Research, Vol. 19 No. 4 (December 2011)
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