Subject: singapore -- history -- japanese occupation, 1942-1945 (Keywords)

The fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 was a military disaster of enduring fascination and seemingly unshakable myth. Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan Campaign, the Siege of Singapore and the Japanese Occupation through the eyes of those who were there - the soldiers of ...

Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else bes...