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Singapore Burning: Heroism And Surrender In World War Ii

By Colin Smith

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2006
ISBN
0141010363, 9780141010366
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9958958 bytes)
Pages
512\0
Topic
History
Time added
2021-07-26 00:11:19

Description

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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