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Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II
by Colin Smith
Churchill
called it 'the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.'
This 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 that was so - no one was spared and its fall led to imprisonment,
torture and death for thousands of allied men and women.
In this extraordinary book, using 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.
Paperback| 198 x129mm| 656 pages | ISBN 0141010363| 04 May 2006
Published by Penguin - Price £9.00
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