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- English
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The Fall of Singapore 1942
About this book
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.
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Index
Air Forces, (Allied), (see also Royal Australian Air Force), 11, 12, 25-6, 43, 45, 61, 66, 89, 173
Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel C.G.W., V.C., 31, 101-2
Anzac Club, 35
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 32, 103, 132, 199
Arneil, Stan, 187
Assheton, Lieutenant-Colonel C.F., 167
Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Claude, 38
Ballentine, Brigadier G.C., 136
Bangkok, 53
Banka Strait, 186
Bennett, Major-General Gordon, 16, 28 et seq, 44, 45, 47, 67, 69-71, 102-3, 120, 130, 132 et seq, 139, 165, 186-9, 195-6, 199, 200-6
Blarney, Field Marshal Sir Thomas, 29
Bluhdhorn, Bernie, 169
Bond, Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel, 11
Bowden, V.G., 46, 92, 119, 179, 183, 185-6
Bradford, ‘Brick’, 163
Brooke-Popham, Air Chief-Marshal Sir Robert, 13, 25, 44, 50, 60, 120, 121
Bukit Panjang, 180
Bukit Timah, 22, 165, 170, 174, 180, 182, 190, 192
Bullwinkel, Sister Vivian, 185
Burma, 7, 20
Chapman, Lieutenant-Colonel Spencer, 34
Changi, 164, 181-2, 198, 199-200, 208-9, 210, 219
Chinese (see also Singapore, Chinese population), 32, 56, 210-12
Churchill, Sir Winston, 15, 46, 47, 62, 63-4, 91-3, 102, 123, 130, 180, 189
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 46-9, 64, 66, 93-4, 108, 121
Cooper, Lady Diana, 48, 94
Cumming, Brigadier A.E., V.C., 31
Curtin, John, 130-1, 204
Dailey, Lieutenant-Colonel J....
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Epigraph
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Impregnable Fortress
- Face to Face with the Jungle
- A Most Dangerous Enemy
- Shell-Shock
- Retreat
- Pay Cash, and Bury Your Dead
- The Agony and Death of a City
- The Lonely, Frightening Wait
- Into the Killing Area
- A Humiliating Surrender
- Escape and Captivity
- Bibliography
- Index