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Author : Henry P. Frei
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971692735
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns of February written by Henry P. Frei and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eys of Japanese soldiers who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries and other Japanese-language sources.

Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472811232
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malaya and Singapore 1941–42 written by Mark Stille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and India open to invasion. Although heavily outnumbered, the Japanese Army fought fiercely to overcome the inept and shambolic defence offered by the British and Commonwealth forces. Detailed analysis of the conflict, combined with a heavy focus on the significance of the aerial campaign, help tell the fascinating story of the Japanese victory, from the initial landings in Thailand and Malaya through to the destruction of the Royal Navy's Force Z and the final fall of Singapore itself.

Author : Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singapore, 1941-1942 written by Masanobu Tsuji and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allen Louis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135194181
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singapore 1941-1942 written by Allen Louis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill described the loss of Singapore as the greatest disaster ever to befall British arms. Louis Allen analyzes the remote political causes of the Japanese campaign, gives an account of the events of the campaign, and then attempts to apportion responsibility for the defeat.

Author : Joseph Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349086916
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45 written by Joseph Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472840607
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malaya & Dutch East Indies 1941–42 written by Mark Stille and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was quickly followed by a rapid invasion of Malaya, a plan based entirely on the decisive use of its airpower. While the British was inadequately prepared, they likewise relied on the RAF to defend their colony. The campaign was a short match between Japanese airpower at its peak and an outgunned colonial air force, and its results were stunning. The subsequent Dutch East Indies campaign was even more dependent on airpower, with Japan having to seize a string of island airfields to support their leapfrog advance. Facing the Japanese was a mixed bag of Allied air units, including the Dutch East Indies Air Squadron and the US Far East Air Force. The RAF fell back to airfields on Sumatra in the last stages of the Malaya campaign, and was involved in the last stages of the campaign to defend the Dutch colony. For the first time, this study explores these campaigns from an airpower perspective, explaining how and why the Japanese were so devastatingly effective.

Author : Stanley Lawrence Falk
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seventy Days to Singapore written by Stanley Lawrence Falk and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1975 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906626
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singapore Burning written by Colin Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brian Cull
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908117966
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buffaloes over Singapore written by Brian Cull and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII history recounts how RAF pilots, outgunned by superior Japanese aircraft, nevertheless flew and fought their way to victory. In 1940, the Royal Air Force Purchasing Commission acquired more than 100 Brewster B-339 Buffalo fighter planes from the US. But when the aircraft were deemed below par for service in the UK, the vast majority were diverted for use in the Far East, where it was believed they would be superior to any Japanese aircraft encountered should hostilities break out there. This assessment was to prove tragically mistaken. When war erupted in the Pacific, the Japanese Air Forces proved vastly superior in nearly all aspects. Compounding their advantage was the fact that many of the Japanese fighter pilots were veterans of the war against China. By contrast, most of the young British, New Zealand, and Australian pilots who flew the Buffalo on operations in Malaya and in Singapore were little more than trainees. Yet these fledgling fighter pilots achieved much greater success than could have been anticipated. Buffaloes Over Singapore tells their story in vivid detail, complete with previously unpublished source material and wartime photographs.

Author : Justin J Corfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811408175
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Singapore written by Justin J Corfield and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: