History of Southeast Asia

A history of the lands between India, China and Australia.

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Episode 40: The History Fangirl Interview

Posted March 1, 2018

This episode is a break from the narrative usually presented. Recently Charles Kimball was interviewed for another podcast, History Fangirl, to give...

Episode 39: Japan Goes South

Posted February 15, 2018

It only took three months for the Japanese to conquer most of Indonesia, an area the Dutch had dominated for more than three hundred years. This episode...

Episode 38: The Battle for the Philippines, Part 1

Posted February 1, 2018

Episode 38 continues on the topic the podcast has been covering since the year began -- World War II in Southeast Asia. This time we will see the Japanese...

Episode 37: Japan Strikes, The Fall of Malaya and Singapore

Posted January 16, 2018

In the last episode you heard about Japan invading China, occupying French Indochina, and bombing Pearl Harbor. Now this episode covers the 1941 Japanese...

Episode 36: Prelude to the Pacific War

Posted January 1, 2018

Happy New Year, and to begin 2018, the podcast will begin covering the course of World War II in Southeast Asia. We will start by looking at the events...