Podcast with Ronald H Spector, author of “A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955”
On 2 September 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States, ending the Second World War. Yet the Japanese invasion had upended the old geopolitical structures of European empires, leaving old imperial powers on the decline and new groups calling for independence on the rise. That unsteady situation sparked a decade of conflict: in Indonesia, in…
