Till the Second World War or thereabouts, the Asian people suffered from some sort of a complex. They thought Europeans were a master invincible race.
At the beginning of the Second World War , the British sent its then technological wonder , a navy ship called ''Prince of Wales'' to Singapore to block any attempt by the Japanese navy of making any incursion into the Indian Ocean thus putting their Crown Jewel i.e. British India into a great peril. The Japanese navy or to be more precise their Kamikaze fighter planes made a short shrift and sent the Prince of Wales to the bottom of the ocean, thus creating a thrilling sensation in Asian people. The second such thrilling event took place in 1954 when a brilliant Vietnamese General called Vo Nguyen Giap at the head of a rag tag army employing guerrilla tactics defeated the mighty French Foreign Legion ( of Vive La France fame ) at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. General Giap died recently at the ripe old age of 102.
