The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940 1942
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Author | : Brian Farrell |
Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9814423890 |
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Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far East. The defending British, Indian, Australian and Malayan forces were outmanoeuvred on the ground, overwhelmed in the air and scattered on the sea. By the end of January 1942, British Empire forces were driven back onto the island of Singapore Itself, cut off from further outside help. When the Japanese stormed the island with an an-out assault, the defenders were quickly pushed back into a corner from which there was no escape. Singapore’s defenders finally capitulated on 15 February, to prevent the wholesale pillage of the city itself. Their rapid and total defeat was nothing less than military humiliation and political disaster. Based on the most extensive use yet of primary documents in Britain, Japan, Australia and Singapore, Brian Farrell provides the fullest picture of how and why Singapore fell and its real significance to the outcome of the Second World War.
Author | : Brian Padair Farrell |
Publisher | : Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Singapore |
ISBN | : 9780752434780 |
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Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far East. The defending British, Indian, Australian and Malayan forces were outmanoeuvred on the ground, overwhelmed in the air and scattered on the sea. By the end of January 1942, British Empire forces were driven back onto the island of Singapore itself, cut off from further outside help. When the Japanese stormed the island with an all-out assault, the defenders were quickly pushed back into a corner from which there was no escape. Singapore's defenders finally capitulated on 15 February, to prevent the wholesale pillage of the city itself. Their rapid and total defeat was nothing less than military humiliation and political disaster. Based on the most extensive use yet of primary documents in Britain, Japan, Australia and Singapore, Brian Farrell provides the fullest picture of how and why Singapore fell and its real significance to the outcome of the Second World War.
Author | : Colin Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 969 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141906626 |
Download Singapore Burning Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2015 |
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Download Disaster in the Far East Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Timothy Hall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317431618 |
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Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 September 1942, but in 1941 Europeans on the island felt still untouched by war, lulled into security by the belief that Singapore was impregnable from the sea. However, the Planning Chief of Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo had realised a successful invasion could come from the north, down the Malay peninsula... Requests from less naive members of the allied forces for more men, arms and equipment were not filled. Authorities were unwilling to reveal to the civilian population the true situation. And so through accident or miscalculation, Singapore was totally unable to repel the Japanese attack. This accessible book, illustrated with black and white photos charts the course of these events.
Author | : Peter Thompson |
Publisher | : Piatkus |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2010-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748122338 |
Download The Battle For Singapore Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a much smaller Japanese force, and the Japanese occupation through the eyes of those who were there - the soldiers of all nationalities and members of Singapore's beleaguered population. An enthralling and perceptive account, which never loses sight of the human cost of the tragedy - Yorkshire Evening Post. An insightful and dramatic analysis - The Good Book Guide
Author | : Brian Farrell |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9814435465 |
Download A Great Betrayal Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004393544 |
Download A World at War, 1911-1949 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In A World At War, 1911-1949, scholars of the cultural history of warfare, inspired by the work of Professor John Horne, break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the First and Second World Wars.
Author | : Jonathan Fennell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 967 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107030951 |
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Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Author | : Frank Owen |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
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Sunday 15 February 1942 was, according to Sir Winston Churchill, the blackest day in the history of the British Empire.