About the book: year / 1940. In Great Britain, the government of Lord Halifax comes to power, which concludes an armistice with Germany and, thus, withdraws from the war. The countries of the British Commonwealth, which are uniting into the Commonwealth of Nations, reacted sharply negatively to this step. At the other end of the eastern hemisphere, in Thailand, events are also taking place that are changing the political landscape of all of Southeast Asia. The history of the Second World War, and, accordingly, all of modern history, took a completely different path…