| Description |
1 online resource (548 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction by Brian P. Farrell; List of Plates and Maps; 01 An Enduring Theme: The "Singapore Strategy" by Malcolm H. Murfett; 02 Australia and the Singapore Strategy by Peter Dennis; 03 Symbol of Imperial Defence: The Role of Singapore in British and American Far Eastern Strategic Relations, 1933-1941 by Greg Kennedy; 04 Disaster Foreseen? France and the Fall of Singapore by Martin Thomas; 05 Student and Master: The United Kingdom, Japan, Airpower, and the Fall of Singapore, 1920-1941 by John R. Ferris |
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06 The Evacuation of Civilians From Hong Kong and Malaya/Singapore, 1939-42 by Kent Fedorowich07 Churchill and Singapore by Raymond Callahan; 08 1941: An Overview by Brian P. Farrell; 09 General Yamashita Tomoyuki: Commander of the Twenty-Fifth Army by Akashi Yoji; 10 Allied Prisoners of War: The Malayan Campaign, 1941-42 by Sibylla Jane Flower; 11 The Island Battle: Japanese Soldiers Remember the Conquest of Singapore by Henry P. Frei; 12 General Percival and the Fall of Singapore by Clifford Kinvig; 13 The Indian Army and the Fall of Singapore by Alan Warren |
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14 "The men who did the fighting are now all busy writing": Australian Post-Mortems on Defeat in Malaya and Singapore, 1942-45 by Peter Stanley15 Betrayal by Sandy Hunter; Index |
| Summary |
Across 15 chapters, professors of history and military history experts present their analyses and impressions about the Fall of Singapore in 1942, which was even described by Winston Churchill himself as "the greatest disaster in British military history". Discussed at length is the Malayan Campaign and the "Singapore Strategy", with problems and events related to the pre-war period as well as the conduct of the campaign itself. Highlights include extensive discussions on the reasons for Japanese success and British failure as well as Ground Zero perspectives from Japanese soldiers fighting on |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Malay Peninsula
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Singapore.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Military campaigns
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| SUBJECT |
Singapore -- History -- Siege, 1942.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002267
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| Subject |
Asia -- Malay Peninsula
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Singapore
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hunter, Sandy
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| ISBN |
9789814435468 |
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9814435465 |
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