The Defence and Fall of Singapore
Title | The Defence and Fall of Singapore PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Farrell |
Publisher | Monsoon Books |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9814423890 |
Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far East. The defending British, Indian, Australian and Malayan forces were outmanoeuvred on the ground, overwhelmed in the air and scattered on the sea. By the end of January 1942, British Empire forces were driven back onto the island of Singapore Itself, cut off from further outside help. When the Japanese stormed the island with an an-out assault, the defenders were quickly pushed back into a corner from which there was no escape. Singapore’s defenders finally capitulated on 15 February, to prevent the wholesale pillage of the city itself. Their rapid and total defeat was nothing less than military humiliation and political disaster. Based on the most extensive use yet of primary documents in Britain, Japan, Australia and Singapore, Brian Farrell provides the fullest picture of how and why Singapore fell and its real significance to the outcome of the Second World War.
The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942
Title | The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Padair Farrell |
Publisher | Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | 447 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Singapore |
ISBN | 9780752434780 |
Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far East. The defending British, Indian, Australian and Malayan forces were outmanoeuvred on the ground, overwhelmed in the air and scattered on the sea. By the end of January 1942, British Empire forces were driven back onto the island of Singapore itself, cut off from further outside help. When the Japanese stormed the island with an all-out assault, the defenders were quickly pushed back into a corner from which there was no escape. Singapore's defenders finally capitulated on 15 February, to prevent the wholesale pillage of the city itself. Their rapid and total defeat was nothing less than military humiliation and political disaster. Based on the most extensive use yet of primary documents in Britain, Japan, Australia and Singapore, Brian Farrell provides the fullest picture of how and why Singapore fell and its real significance to the outcome of the Second World War.
Disaster in the Far East
Title | Disaster in the Far East PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Fall of Singapore 1942
Title | The Fall of Singapore 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Hall |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2015-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317431618 |
Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 September 1942, but in 1941 Europeans on the island felt still untouched by war, lulled into security by the belief that Singapore was impregnable from the sea. However, the Planning Chief of Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo had realised a successful invasion could come from the north, down the Malay peninsula... Requests from less naive members of the allied forces for more men, arms and equipment were not filled. Authorities were unwilling to reveal to the civilian population the true situation. And so through accident or miscalculation, Singapore was totally unable to repel the Japanese attack. This accessible book, illustrated with black and white photos charts the course of these events.
Disaster in the Far East, 1940–1942
Title | Disaster in the Far East, 1940–1942 PDF eBook |
Author | John Grehan |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | 476 |
Release | 2015-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473852811 |
Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the report on the air operations during the campaigns in Malaya and Netherland East Indies between December 1941 and March 1942; and the important despatch by Percival detailing the fall of Malaya and Fortress Singapore.This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.
The Fall of Singapore
Title | The Fall of Singapore PDF eBook |
Author | Justin J. Corfield |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 804 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Singapore |
ISBN | 9781742704227 |
This book provides a day-by-day history of the Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore from the first alerts as the British prepared to move their forces on to a war footing on 29 November, through the fighting, to the Japanese imposing their rule on the Chinese in Singapore on 26 February - a total of 90 days. For each of the 90 days, all the major developments - military and political - are detailed along with information on every Allied soldier who died on that day.
Singapore Burning
Title | Singapore Burning PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Smith |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 969 |
Release | 2006-05-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0141906626 |
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.