A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945.(Book Review) The Historian | June 22, 2003| | COPYRIGHT 2003 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945. By Nicholas Tarling. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. $36.00.)

Southeast Asia was strategically significant in the context of World War II. The oil reserves of Sumatra and Borneo, as well as the rice, rubber, and tin plantations of other parts of Southeast Asia, were to play an important role in expanding Japanese industry, as well as plans for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The study of the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, however, has previously been ...

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