ASIN: B07BH7Q1SN
Publisher: Sharpe Books
Pages: 723
'the definitive book on this extraordinary drama' Daily TelegraphIn 1927, its sixtieth anniversary as a Crown colony, Singapore was thriving. The Jazz age roared on, rubber prices soared, people worked as hard as was considered healthy in tropical climes and many, perhaps, played rather harder than they should have done.But then, not twenty years later, in 1942 ‘The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history,’ according to Winston Churchill, took place on the island.Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore in 1942, which led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops being captured by the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. With new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of Singapore's fall and its aftermath. Alongside cowardice and incompetence he uncovers acts of ...
