Colonies in Ruins: Transformed by the Pacific War

By Antwyn Price

Colonies in Ruins is a collection of intriguing short-stories about foreign colonies of the Asia-Pacific region—British Malaya, French Indochina, the Dutch East Indies, and the US Philippine Islands. For a very long time, these colonies had generated fabulous wealth from mining and agriculture for their colonial masters, but colonial life

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author Reputation Press, LLC
• Release date: Nov 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781951727178

Antwyn Price

Antwyn Price was educated at Harvard College and the University of Oklahoma. After a tour of duty with the US Marine Corps, his ongoing career as an engineer in California led to business opportunities in Latin America, the Far East, and Europe. In retirement, he and his wife Elizabeth made their home in the plains of Texas and the mountains of Veracruz in Mexico. As an author, Antwyn's genre is historical fiction, which he likes to call 'faction' because his works are carefully built upon the factual historical record. "But adding fictional characters makes for a more enjoyable read," he explains.