Free Thai: Personal Recollections And Official Documents (1997) By Wimon Wiriyawit
 
An important eyewitness account of one of the active participants. Group Captain Wimon Wiriyawit is one of the few survivors of a small group of Thais who were in the USA at the beginning of the Pacific War and who volunteered to work for the liberation of Thailand from Japanese occupation. The personal recollections are supported by official documents from US archives, released only recently. This book brings to light the differing agendas of the war the USA, Britain and Nationalist China, as well as different ideas within the Thai political elite.
 
First published in Thai 1993, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the negotiations of the British and Thai governments to end the state of war and interventions by OSS and the State Department, September 1945 to January 1946.
 
Soft Cover
320 pages
In Fair to Good Condition