HistoryExtra podcast · 2026-08-16 · 35 min · 5,395 words

How WW2 transformed Asia

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For decades, the history of the Second World War has been told predominantly through Western eyes. That, writes historian Hans van der Ven, simply has to change. Hans's new book, Blood Dawn, sets out to reset this foc, exploring the conflict story from an Asipe. In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Hans tells Spencer Mizen how the Second World War supercharged the fight for independence from European domination across India, China, and Indonesia, and how, in doing so, it transformed the continent. Hans, thank you so much for joining us on the History Extra podcast today.

In your new book, Blood Dawn You write that in standard narratives of the second world war, Europe has traditionally served as the focal point that United States and the United Kingdom stand as heroic saviors of freedom and democracy. The war in Asia, by contrast, has quite often been seen as as a bit of a sideshow. It's that while you've written the book as a kind of corrective. to this Western centric approach to writing histories of the second world war. You're absolutely right. For two reasons I think that this the standard corrective that we learn in our schools, that we see on movies, that we see in museums and so on. I think there's two problems with it. One is that

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