The Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942


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Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942


Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942
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Author : Ronald McCrum
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2018-04-27

Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942 written by Ronald McCrum and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with History categories.


The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and closely examined episode. While attention is frequently drawn to the role of the Colonial Governor and his staff during this period, the participation of the civil authorities has not been subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny. In this book, Ronald McCrum undertakes a close examination of the role and the responsibilities of the colonial authorities both in the lead-up to the war and during it. He contends that the colonial government, by pursuing different priorities, needlessly created distraction and confusion. Additionally, the poor, even hostile, relations that developed between the local government and the British military hierarchy impeded a joint approach to the growing threat and affected the course of this campaign. McCrum displays how the tawdry managementof civil defence matters led to unnecessary loss of civilian life.



The Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942


The Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942
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Author : Ronald McCrum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

The Men Who Lost Singapore 1938 1942 written by Ronald McCrum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Governors categories.




The Man Who Took The Rap


The Man Who Took The Rap
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Author : Peter John Dye
language : en
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2018-10-15

The Man Who Took The Rap written by Peter John Dye and has been published by Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with History categories.


This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his subsequent involvement in the fall of Singapore. It highlights Brooke-Popham’s role in developing the first modern military logistic system, the creation of the Royal Air Force Staff College and the organizational arrangements that underpinned Fighter Command’s success in the Battle of Britain. Peter Dye challenges longstanding views about performance as Commander-in-Chief Far East and, based on new evidence, offers a more nuanced narrative that sheds light on British and Allied preparations for the Pacific War, inter-service relations and the reasons for the disastrous loss of air and naval superiority that followed the Japanese attack. “The Man Who Took the Rap” highlights the misguided attempts at deterrence, in the absence of a coordinated information campaign, and the unprecedented security lapse that betrayed the parlous state of the Allied defenses.



The Special Operations Executive In Malaya


The Special Operations Executive In Malaya
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Author : Rebecca Kenneison
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-30

The Special Operations Executive In Malaya written by Rebecca Kenneison and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Political Science categories.


During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent army of the Malayan Emergency. This book traces the development of SOE's Malayan operations, and analyses the interactions between SOE and the various guerrilla groups. It explores the reasons for and the extent of Malay disillusionment with Japanese rule, and demonstrates how guerrilla service acted as a training ground for some later Malay leaders of the independent nation. However, the reports written about the MPAJA by SOE operatives just after the war failed to draw out the likely future threat posed by the communists to the returning colonial administration. Rebecca Kenneison shows that the British possessed a wealth of local information, but failed to convert it into active intelligence in the period prior to the Malayan Emergency. In doing so she provides new insights into the impact of SOE on Malayan politics, the nature of Malayan communism's challenge to colonial rule, and British post-war intelligence in Malaya.



Singapore 1942


Singapore 1942
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Author : Alan Warren
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Release Date : 2002

Singapore 1942 written by Alan Warren and has been published by Bloomsbury Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.


The surrender of Singapore on February 15, 1942, was the greatest and most humiliating defeat in British history and the high-point of Japanese expansion in Southeast Asia. It graphically exposed the military weakness of the British Empire and its inability to defend its Far Eastern colonies. Based on original records, "Singapore, 1942" shows what went wrong and how an outnumbered and poorly equipped Japanese invasion force swept to victory against a mixed army of British, Australian, and Indian soldiers, changing Britain' s imperial destiny and the course of World War II.



Pioneers Of Singapore 2020 Edition Pdf


Pioneers Of Singapore 2020 Edition Pdf
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Author : Lee Chin Lim, Soon Oon Chan, Alan Bay
language : en
Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
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Pioneers Of Singapore 2020 Edition Pdf written by Lee Chin Lim, Soon Oon Chan, Alan Bay and has been published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.


We always hear the names Raffles or Farquhar whenever we discuss Singapore’s early history. But what of the many other pioneers who were just as important? What are their stories? Accompanied by lively, charming illustrations, Pioneers of Singapore brings you the accounts of thirty-five key figures in Singapore’s colonial history. Some of them include: Who broke up one of the biggest communal riots in Singapore? Who founded the first hospital in Singapore that was built entirely without help from the government? Who produced the first comprehensive map of Singapore and designed most of its early buildings? Read on as our forefathers come to life with the help of comic artist Alan Bay’s beautiful artwork, as the 2004 bestseller returns in an all-new coloured edition!



The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940 1942


The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940 1942
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Author : Brian Padair Farrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940 1942 written by Brian Padair Farrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Singapore categories.


Shortly after midnight on December 8, 1941, two divisions of 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. Singapore's defenders finally capitulated on February 15, 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 Fall Of Singapore


The Fall Of Singapore
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Author : Justin J. Corfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

The Fall Of Singapore written by Justin J. Corfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Singapore categories.


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.



The War In Malaya


The War In Malaya
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Author : Lieut.-Gen. Arthur Ernest Percival
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-28

The War In Malaya written by Lieut.-Gen. Arthur Ernest Percival and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with History categories.


Arthur Ernest Percival, the General commanding in Malaya at the time of the catastophic events of 1941 and 1942, gives his authoritative account of the campaign. “THE fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 was a great shock both to Britain and to her Allies. The shock was all the greater because the public generally had been led to believe that Singapore was impregnable. Accusations against our leaders, both military and civil, were made in our own country and abroad, and there were wild stories about the conduct of our fighting men and of the civil population. Many of the statements made and many of the opinions expressed were based on false or incomplete information. Some of them were founded on inadequate knowledge of Malayan conditions or of the factors which influenced decisions. Others were “last survivor” stories. I have hitherto made no effort to refute these accusations or to deny these stories. Some of my friends have wondered why. I felt that it would be better to concentrate on producing the true story and that it is due to all those who fought in Malaya and Borneo, and to the non-combatants who played their part and suffered equally with the fighting men, that I should record the knowledge which I alone possess. So that is why I have written this book. “It would have been easy for me, in the charged atmosphere which still surrounds the fall of Singapore, to have written a sensational story. It would have been equally easy to have written an apologia. I have tried to avoid both these pitfalls...I have tried, therefore, in this book to give, as concisely as I can, a picture of those events as they are known to me and to explain why certain decisions were taken and the factors which influenced them. I have assumed that the great majority of my readers have little or no knowledge of the Far East, so I have tried to introduce them to the conditions which prevailed there at the time of which I write. I hope I have not been unsuccessful.”—Foreword



A Great Betrayal


A Great Betrayal
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Author : Sandy Hunter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

A Great Betrayal written by Sandy Hunter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Singapore categories.


Professors of history and military history experts present their analyses and impressions about the Fall of Singapore in 1942. Features first-person 'narrated' accounts including graphic recollections from Japanese soldiers fighting on the frontlines 15 chapters that thoroughly covers a wide range of issues surrounding the fall of Singapore. Each individually contributed by a different (but no less distinguished) professor/scholar of history. Across 15 chapters, professors of history and military history experts present their analyses and impressions about the Fall of Singapore in 1942, which was even described by Winston Churchill himself as 'the greatest disaster in British military history'. Discussed at length is the Malayan Campaign and the 'Singapore Strategy', with problems and events related to the pre-war period as well as the conduct of the campaign itself. Highlights include extensive discussions on the reasons for Japanese success and British failure as well as Ground Zero perspectives from Japanese soldiers fighting on the island and civilians facing evacuation. What follows is a more complete and comprehensive picture painted of this turbulent period in Singapore's history. Brian Farrellis associate professor of military history at the National University of Singapore where he has been teaching since 1993. Sandy Hunteris a graduate of the arts and law faculties of Scotland's Aberdeen University and his military career includes service in Singapore as a reconnaissance pilot at Tengah during the Indonesian Confrontasi.