Singapore's Dunkirk / Geoffrey Brooke.
نوع المادة :
نصالناشر:Barnsley, South Yorkshire : L. Cooper, 2003وصف:xiii, 256 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0850529719 (hbk)
- 9780850529715 (hbk)
- Singapore -- History -- Siege, 1942
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Singapore
- Singapore -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Malay Peninsula
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Singapore
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British
- Brooke, Geoffrey
- D767.55 B76 2003
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D767.55 B76 2003 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000258002 |
Browsing UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات shelves, Shelving location: General Collection | المجموعات العامة إغلاق مستعرض الرف(يخفي مستعرض الرف)
| D767.4 S54 2001 Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission / | D767.4 S54 2001 Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission / | D767.5 T7 1994 Operations most secret : SOE : the Malayan theatre / | D767.55 B76 2003 Singapore's Dunkirk / | D767.55 F37 2005 The defence and fall of Singapore 1940-1942 / | D767.55 M33 1997 The remorseless road : Singapore to Nagasaki, an RAF officer's account of capture and the Japanese prison camps in World War II / | D767.6 A47 1984 Burma, the longest war, 1941-1945 / |
Originally published: London: L. Cooper, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index.
When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. It was truly 'every man for himself'. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity and every probability of barbarity at the hands of the Japanese, that many tried to escape. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who chose this option. The only way out was by sea and every sort of craft was pressed into service. Ahead lay terrible dangers; storm, shipwreck, piracy, capture by a merciless enemy, starvation and death through lack of water, to name but some. This is a shocking and inspiring book that embraces great courage, extraordinary endurance, appalling atrocities and even cannibalism. The author was one of those who made it to safety
