Singapore At War

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748122332

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The Battle For Singapore by Peter Thompson Pdf

The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a much smaller Japanese force, and the Japanese occupation through the eyes of those who were there - the soldiers of all nationalities and members of Singapore's beleaguered population. An enthralling and perceptive account, which never loses sight of the human cost of the tragedy - Yorkshire Evening Post. An insightful and dramatic analysis - The Good Book Guide

Author : Karl Hack,Kevin Blackburn
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971695996

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War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore by Karl Hack,Kevin Blackburn Pdf

Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya's jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation would last three and a half years, until the return of the British in September 1945. How is this period remembered? And how have individuals, communities, and states shaped and reshaped memories in the postwar era? The book response to these questions, presenting answers that use the words of Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, British and Australians who personally experienced the war years. The authors guide readers through many forms of memory: from the soaring pillars of Singapore's Civilian War Memorial, to traditional Chinese cemeteries in Malaysia; and from families left bereft by Japanese massacres, to the young women who flocked to the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army, dreaming of a march on Delhi. This volume provides a forum for previously marginalized and self-censored voices, using the stories they relate to reflect on the nature of conflict and memory. They also offer a deeper understanding of the searing transit from wartime occupation to post-war decolonization and the moulding of postcolonial states and identities.

Author : Jon Diamond
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473845589

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The Fall of Malaya and Singapore by Jon Diamond Pdf

In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita. British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and tactical superiority. Morale was badly affected by the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse to Japanese aircraft on 19 December as they sought out enemy shipping. Panic set in as military and civilians withdrew south to Singapore. Thought to be an impregnable fortress, its defences against land attacks were shockingly deficient. General Percival's leadership was at best uninspired and at worst incompetent. Once the Allied troops withdrew to Singapore it was only a matter of time before surrender became inevitable. To make matters worse reinforcements arrived but only in time to be made POWs. The whole catastrophe is brilliantly described in this highly illustrated book.

Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141906621

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Singapore Burning by Colin Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Brian Farrell
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814423892

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The Defence and Fall of Singapore by Brian Farrell Pdf

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 outmanoeuvred 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 an-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.

Author : W. G. Huff,Shinobu Majima
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : UGA:32108058857361

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World War II Singapore by W. G. Huff,Shinobu Majima Pdf

During World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the Chōsabu, to study occupied Singapore. The bureau's reports on Singapore's economy and society, reproduced here in translation, covered population and living standards, prices, wages, currency and inflation, rationing, labour usage, food production and supply, and industrialization. Syonan's military and civilian administrators drew on Chōsabu research in formulating social and economic policy. The research takes on added importance because the Japanese destroyed most records of their wartime administration. That leaves the Chōsabu reports as one of the few first-hand Japanese sources to have survived the war. The translation allows a fuller understanding of the impact of the war and occupation than hitherto possible. Introductory chapters by the editors analyse the reports in light of wartime events in Singapore and Japanese occupation policies, and discuss the Chōsabu authors and their place in the history of Japanese economic thought.

Author : Joseph Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349086917

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British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45 by Joseph Kennedy Pdf

Author : Romen Bose
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814435420

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Singapore At War by Romen Bose Pdf

This volume brings together for the first time three of Romen Bose’s major historical works – Secrets of the Battlebox, The End of the War, and Kranji – in a panoramic account of Singapore’s experience in WWII. Sealed off and forgotten until the late 1990s, the Battlebox beneath Fort Canning served as the British Command HQ during the war. What actually happened in this underground nerve centre of the Malayan Campaign? Drawing on top-secret documents only recently opened to research, the author investigates the workings of the Battlebox and the fascinating role it played. Having lost their “impregnable fortress” of Singapore, the British were diverted to the European theatre of war. How then, when the Japanese surrendered, did they prepare to return to their erstwhile colonies? This book goes behind the scenes to investigate the circumstances, events, and unforgettable cast of characters that led up to liberation. Finally, the book considers those who fought and died in the war, and their ways in which they have been remembered in post-war Singapore, with Kranji cemetery and memorial as the centrepiece of the efforts. Singapore At War contains new findings which have come to light since the publication of the individual books, giving an unprecedented breadth and depth of perspective to this historical account.

Author : Stanley Woodburn Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015046353622

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The War Against Japan: The decisive battles by Stanley Woodburn Kirby Pdf

Author : Romen Bose
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814435475

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The End of the War by Romen Bose Pdf

Author : Heather Streets-Salter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107135192

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World War One in Southeast Asia by Heather Streets-Salter Pdf

An original study of the First World War's impact in Southeast Asia, extending our understanding of the conflict as a global phenomenon.

Author : Stanley Woodburn Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015005325389

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The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore by Stanley Woodburn Kirby Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811831629

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We Shall Remember by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317431619

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The Fall of Singapore 1942 by Timothy Hall Pdf

Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 September 1942, but in 1941 Europeans on the island felt still untouched by war, lulled into security by the belief that Singapore was impregnable from the sea. However, the Planning Chief of Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo had realised a successful invasion could come from the north, down the Malay peninsula... Requests from less naive members of the allied forces for more men, arms and equipment were not filled. Authorities were unwilling to reveal to the civilian population the true situation. And so through accident or miscalculation, Singapore was totally unable to repel the Japanese attack. This accessible book, illustrated with black and white photos charts the course of these events.

Author : Patricia Pui Huen Lim,Diana Wong
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9812300376

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War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore by Patricia Pui Huen Lim,Diana Wong Pdf

This volume consists of selected papers presented at a workshop on War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II, plus two additional papers. The papers reveal the importance of oral history where documentary records are lacking.