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Escape From Singapore 1942
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Author : Ian Skidmore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Escape From Singapore 1942 written by Ian Skidmore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
Account of an officer in the British Royal Artillery who removed himself and his battery from Singapore when it fell to Japan in February 1942.
Unsung Heroes
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Author : Robin Keown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Unsung Heroes written by Robin Keown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Singapore categories.
An account of the escape from Signapore by New Zealand's 488 Squadron ground crew along with other allied services and civilians in 1942.
Close To The Wind
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Author : David B. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Release Date : 2019-03-13
Close To The Wind written by David B. Hill and has been published by Huia Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-13 with History categories.
In May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen who were members of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Māori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. Playing to their strengths as small boat sailors, they manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing Allies from behind enemy lines. On the night of 13 February 1942, the eve of the fall of Singapore, they took two Fairmiles, ML310 and ML311, to evacuate members of the Allied High Command and survivors of sinking vessels. Hunted down by the Japanese, most of the almost one hundred men perished. Some became POWs, and of those who attempted to escape, only three succeeded: Leonard Hill, Herbert 'Johnny' Bull and Andrew Brough. This is the story of how they evaded the Japanese and survived.
Rosie S War
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Author : Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Rosie S War written by Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Escapes categories.
Memoir of childhood in Singapore and flight to Bombay during World War Two.
Escape From Singapore
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Author : Brig Jasbir Singh
language : en
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Escape From Singapore written by Brig Jasbir Singh and has been published by Lancer Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Escaped prisoners of war categories.
While it is the duty of an army to maintain enemy soldiers in prisoner-of-war (POW) camps, it is also the right of every POW soldier, irrespective of rank and nationality, to escape and to engage the enemy in whatever method possible. And when the stakes are as big as the Second World War, the stage is set for any challenge that a soldier may have to face& and overcome. This is a little known story of three young officers of the Indian Army, who escaped from a Japanese POW camp in Singapore and made their way through Malaya (now Malaysia), Thailand and Burma (now Myanmar) to reach India, over a period of six months. Travelling through a gruelling tract of arid forests, with a forever depleted stock of provisions and always in the constant fear of coming face to face with enemy forces, these young officers displayed raw courage and bravery in the face of complete annihilation.
Singapore To Freedom
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Author : Oswald Wellington Gilmour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-10
Singapore To Freedom written by Oswald Wellington Gilmour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-10 with categories.
This is the vivid and authentic story of the author's escape from Singapore just before the island fell to the Japanese in 1942 during the Second World War. It describes his grueling experiences in reaching the safety of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) via land and sea.Deserving its place in the first-hand accounts of civilian adventures during WWII, Singapore to Freedom illuminates in detail what later became know as "the Malayan tragedy".Mr. Gilmour was Deputy Municipal Engineer of Singapore before the war began, and his absorbing narrative of the hazards and hardships of his experience makes for a book not easily abandoned.
The Fall Of Singapore 1942
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Author : Timothy Hall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-05
The Fall Of Singapore 1942 written by Timothy Hall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-05 with History categories.
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.
The Defence And Fall Of Singapore
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Author : Brian Farrell
language : en
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Release Date : 2017-01-01
The Defence And Fall Of Singapore written by Brian Farrell and has been published by Monsoon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with History categories.
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.
When Singapore Fell
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Author : Joseph Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-11-13
When Singapore Fell written by Joseph Kennedy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-11-13 with History categories.
Singapore Samurai
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Author : Penrod Dean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Singapore Samurai written by Penrod Dean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Changi (Singapore : Concentration camp) categories.
Few Australian prisoners of the Japanese in World War II escaped from custody, but Penrod Dean was one of those few. A lieutenant in the Second AIF he was among the thousands captured at the fall of Singapore. Dean and a fellow serviceman escaped from Changi POW camp in 1942. Neither man knew it at the time, but their adventures and their tribulations were just beginning. While on the run they succeeded in sabotaging the Japanese war effort, fell in with the Chinese Communist guerrilla group, and then moved on, alone in the jungles of Malaya. Eventually they were betrayed to their enemies, mercilessly tortured and sentenced to two years solitary confinement at the notorious Outram Road prison in Singapore. Incredibly, Dean taught himself Japanese while in his tiny cell, and worked as a translator after his release back to Changi. He was one of ten Australians chosen to go to Japan and appear as a witness at the Major War Trials.