Why Singapore Fell
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Why Singapore Fell

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Why Singapore Fell

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Includes more than 30 maps, plans and illustrationsThe fall of Singapore, the "Gibraltar of the East", struck by the Imperial Japanese troops during the lightning Malaya campaign of 1942 was a great shock to the Allied cause during the Second World War. No less a person than Prime Minister Winston Churchill assessed it as the "worst disaster" and the "largest capitulation" in British military history. 85, 000 British, Indian and Australian troops were marched into the captivity with 50, 000 others who had been captured already in the campaign, their fate was to be a barbaric fate in the hands of the Japanese. Their commanders were to be made scapegoats and pilloried for not stopping the disaster, but the true blame in large part lies elsewhere…Australian General Henry Gordon Bennett's account of the disaster is a gripping defence of his part in the campaign. Sent troops who were ill-equipped, with no experience, and little proper training; the Singapore command attempted to defend their position. Impregnable from seaborne assault, the walls, bastions and fixed positions were no help against the inland advance of the Japanese and with few antiquated fighters to protect them against the heavy air bombardment the Gordon Bennett and his men struggled against the odds. Starved of reinforcements, withheld in Australia and Great Britain, the men and their commanders had to do the best with what they had. In this fascinating book it would seem like the island fortress was doomed from the start in spite of the misguided high hopes of the high command.

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Publisher
Verdun Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781786257420
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. CHAPTER I-JAPAN DECLARES WAR
  6. CHAPTER II-BRITAIN PREPARES
  7. CHAPTER III-THE JUNGLE
  8. CHAPTER IV-TRAINING
  9. CHAPTER V-THAT AGGRESSIVE SPIRIT
  10. CHAPTER VI-THE CIVIL POPULATION
  11. CHAPTER VII-CENSORSHIP
  12. CHAPTER VIII-THE TACTICAL PROBLEM
  13. CHAPTER IX-THE JAPANESE PLAN
  14. CHAPTER X-FIGHTING COMMENCES
  15. CHAPTER XI-SITUATION BECOMES SERIOUS
  16. CHAPTER XII-RETREAT CONTINUES
  17. CHAPTER XIII-“AUSTRALIANS GO IN TO BAT”
  18. CHAPTER XIV-2/30TH BATTALION AMBUSH
  19. CHAPTER XV-BATTLE OF GEMAS
  20. CHAPTER XVI-THE BATTLE OF GEMAS ENDS
  21. CHAPTER XVII-BATTLE AT BAKRI
  22. CHAPTER XVIII-ENEMY THREAT FROM BATU PAHAT
  23. CHAPTER XIX-WITHDRAWAL FROM BAKRI TO PARIT SULONG
  24. CHAPTER XX-WITHDRAWAL TO SINGAPORE
  25. CHAPTER XXI-DEFENCE OF SINGAPORE
  26. CHAPTER XXII-ENEMY LANDING ON SINGAPORE ISLAND
  27. CHAPTER XXIII-THE SURRENDER
  28. CHAPTER XXIV-ESCAPE
  29. CHAPTER XXV-WHY SINGAPORE FELL
  30. CHAPTER XXVI-WHAT NEXT?
  31. APPENDIX I-REPORT ATTRIBUTED TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL A. E. PERCIVAL
  32. APPENDIX II-REPORT ATTRIBUTED TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LEWIS M. HEATH