The defence and fall of Singapore 1940-1942 / Brian P. Farrell.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2005وصف:447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0752423118 (hbk)
- 9780752423111 (hbk)
- D767.55 F37 2005
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D767.55 F37 2005 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000257683 |
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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 / | D767.6 A85 2004 Jungle war : mavericks, marauders and madmen in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [426]-438) and index.
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 out-manoeuvred 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 all-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.