The Fall of Malaya and Singapore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fall of Malaya and Singapore write by Jon Diamond. This book was released on 2015-05-30. The Fall of Malaya and Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Defence and Fall of Singapore
The Defence and Fall of Singapore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Defence and Fall of Singapore write by Brian Farrell. This book was released on 2017-01-01. The Defence and Fall of Singapore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Malaya and Singapore 1941–42
Malaya and Singapore 1941–42 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malaya and Singapore 1941–42 write by Mark Stille. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Malaya and Singapore 1941–42 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and India open to invasion. Although heavily outnumbered, the Japanese Army fought fiercely to overcome the inept and shambolic defence offered by the British and Commonwealth forces. Detailed analysis of the conflict, combined with a heavy focus on the significance of the aerial campaign, help tell the fascinating story of the Japanese victory, from the initial landings in Thailand and Malaya through to the destruction of the Royal Navy's Force Z and the final fall of Singapore itself.
Guns of February
Guns of February - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns of February write by Henry P. Frei. This book was released on 2004. Guns of February available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an account of the fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eys of Japanese soldiers who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries and other Japanese-language sources.
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Japanese Occupation of Malaya write by Paul H. Kratoska. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan attacked British-ruled Malaya on 8 December 1941 as part of a wave of military actions that toppled the British, Dutch and American colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. Within seventy days, the conquest of Malaya was complete, and British forces in Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942. The three and a half years of Japanese rule are generally considered to mark a profound transition in the history of the Malay peninsula, but little is known about this period. This book uses the limited administrative papers that survived in Malaya, oral sources, and accounts written by Japanese officers involved in the Malayan campaign to flesh out the story.
