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Published to international acclaim in 1968, Noel Barber's account of the fall of Singapore remains the best account of this, Britain's greatest military defeat. In just ten weeks, Malaya was overrun and the 'fortress' of Singapore surrendered to a Japanese army that found itself outnumbered by the 100,000+ British and Commonwealth prisoners. Written at a time when he could still interview many of the senior officers as well as ordinary soldiers caught up in this disaster, Noel Barber's account reveals how peacetime complacency prevailed in Singapore up to the very moment the Japanese onslaught began.
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Bestselling author of Tanamera
Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore FROM THE PUBLISHER
The fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942 was a terrible defeat for the British. It took a Japanese army, outnumbered by 20,000 men, just ten weeks from their entry into the war, and one week after the actual assault started, to take Singapore from a complacent and ill-prepared defender. Noel Barber's classic account of the disaster shows how fortress Singapore was nothing of the sort, and all too likely to offer the Japanese their second victory of the war after Hong Kong.
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