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Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II Paperback - 2006

by Colin Smith


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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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  • Title Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II
  • Author Colin Smith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin UK, London
  • Date May 4, 2006
  • ISBN 9780141010366 / 0141010363
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 1.61 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 4.09 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

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Colin Smith is an author and award-winning journalist. He covered many wars for the Observer and served terms as its Defence, Middle East, Asia and Washington correspondent. His previous book Alamein: War Without Hate (with John Bierman) was praised by John Keegan as the best book written about Alamein. He also co-wrote Warsaw Boy with Andrew Borowiec.
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