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1 online resource (868 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Secrets of the Battlebox: The History and Role of Britain's Command HQ During the Malayan Campaign; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Discovery; Chapter 3: The Underground Command Centre; Chapter 4: The Battlebox and the Combined Operations Headquarters; Chapter 5: The Battlebox and the Malayan Campaign; Chapter 6: Occupation and Post War; Appendix A: Last Cable from Singapore 15 February 1942; Appendix B: Chronology of Events; Appendix C: Dramatis Personae; Bibliography |
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The End of the War: Singapore's Liberation and the Aftermath of the Second World WarContents; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: British Pacific Policy; Chapter 3: Clandestine Forces; Chapter 4: The Early Surrenders; Chapter 5: Operation TIDERACE; Chapter 6: Reoccupation; Chapter 7: Operation ZIPPER; Chapter 8: The Final Surrender in Singapore; Chapter 9: Locations; Chapter 10: Postscript; Appendix A: Chronology of Events; Appendix B: List of Operations; Appendix C: Operation ZIPPER Order of Battle |
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Appendix D: Ships Anchored in Singapore Roads during the Ceremony of SurrenderAppendix E: List of Notable Personalities; Appendix F: Reproduction of Original Documents; Selected Bibliography; Kranji: The Commonwealth War Cemetery and the Politics of the Dead; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Beginning; Chapter 3: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Chapter 4: Building Kranji; Chapter 5: The Japanese War Dead; Chapter 6: The Civilian Memorial; Chapter 7: Those Remembered in Kranji; Chapter 8: The Kranji Military Cemetery |
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Chapter 9: The State CemeteryChapter 10: Kranji Today; Appendix A: Layout of Kranji Cemetery; Appendix B: Layout of the Japanese Cemetery; Appendix C: Documents showing location of Japanese graves and cemeteries in British-controlled territories; Appendix D: Blueprints of Kranji Cemetery; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This volume brings together for the first time three of Romen Bose's major historical works - Secrets of the Battlebox, The End of the War, and Kranji - in a panoramic account of Singapore's experience in WWII. Sealed off and forgotten until the late 1990s, the Battlebox beneath Fort Canning served as the British Command HQ during the war. What actually happened in this underground nerve centre of the Malayan Campaign? Drawing on top-secret documents only recently opened to research, the author investigates the workings of the Battlebox and the fascinating role it played. Having lost their "im |
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Print version record |
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Cemeteries -- Singapore
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Malaysia -- Malaya.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Singapore.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Monuments -- Singapore.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Singapore
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Armed Forces
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Cemeteries
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Military campaigns
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Monuments
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Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Singapore -- History
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Singapore -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004089
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Great Britain
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Singapore
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789814435420 |
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9814435422 |
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