Singapore burning : heroism and surrender in World War II

Colin Smith

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.

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書名 Singapore burning : heroism and surrender in World War II
著作者等 Smith, Colin
シリーズ名 Penguin books
出版元 Penguin
刊行年月 2006
ページ数 xi, 628 p., [32] p. of plates
大きさ 20 cm
ISBN 0141010363
NCID BA77575971
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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