The Key to the South: Britain, the United States and Thailand During the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-42 (South-East Asian Historical Monographs)

by Richard Aldrich

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It has been fifty years since Thailand's 1942 declaration of war on Britain and the United States. This study examines the accelerating Western struggle with Japan for control over "independent" Thailand, a country at the strategic crossroads of Southeast Asia and recognized as "The Key to the South." On the eve of Pearl Harbor this culminated in arguments between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Eden as to whether the West should attack or defend this neutral country.
  • ISBN10 0195886127
  • ISBN13 9780195886122
  • Publish Date 18 November 1993
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 April 1999
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
  • Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 439
  • Language English