Louis Allen's work on Japan dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and received great attention internationally. This collection focuses on Japan and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of Japan, security and reconciliation.

Louis Allen (1922-1991) was Reader in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Durham (1961-91). He served during the war as a Japanese-speaking Intelligence officer in India and Burma, and after the war in Malaya, Thailand and French Indo-China (Vietnam). His books include Sittang (1973), Singapore 1941-42 and Burma: The Lonest War (1984).