Singapore Burning : Heroism and Surrender in World War II

Name: Singapore Burning
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141010366
Price: 3050 KES
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ISBN: 9780141010366

by Colin Smith

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0141010363

ISBN-13 9780141010366

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Books Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 4th, 2006

Print length 688 Pages

Weight 474 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 13.00 x 4.10 cms

Product Classification: Singapore c 1940 to c 1949 Asian history Second World War Asian history Second World War

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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 material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, this book offers the story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath.

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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