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Author : Joseph Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349086916
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45 written by Joseph Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yōji Akashi
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971692995
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-1945 written by Yōji Akashi and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse, and Japanese-language materials are particularly difficult to find because the Japanese military systematically destroyed war-related documents when the war ended. The contributors to this volume participated in a Forum that spent four years locating surviving materials relating to the Occupation of Malaya. The group has three objectives: to collect primary sources, to interview Japanese military and civilian officials who took part in the military administration and people in Malaysia and Singapore who experienced the period, and to publish the results of the studies. Based on interviews with Japanese, Malaysians and Singaporeans who lived through the war years and materials gathered from archives and libraries in Britain, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Australia, and India, the Forum has produced a number of Japanese-language publications. This book makes available some of their research findings in English. Topics covered include the Watanabe Military Administration, Japanese research activities in Malaya, Japan's Economic Policies, Malayan Communist Party Leaders and the Anti-Japanese Resistance, the Massacre of Chinese in Singapore, Railway Transportation during the Japanese Occupation Period, The Singapore internment Camp for Allied Civilian Women, and the Japanese Surrender. This volume is a revised version of Akashi Yoji, ed., Nippon Senryoka no Eiryo Maraya/Shingaporu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2001). Book jacket.
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 997169638X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45 written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese forces invaded Malaya on 8 December 1941 and British forces surrendered in Singapore 70 days later. Japan would rule the territory for the next 3½ years. Early efforts to maintain pre-war standards of comfort gave way to a grim struggle for survival as the vibrant economy ground to a halt and residents struggled to deal with unemployment, shortages of consumer goods, sharp price rises, a thriving black market and widespread corruption. People were hungry, dressed in rags, and falling victim to treatable diseases for which medicines were unavailable, and there was little reason to hope for better in the future. Using surviving administrative papers, oral materials, intelligence reports and post-war accounts by Japanese officers, this book presents a picture of life in occupied Malaya and Singapore. It shows the impact of war and occupation on a non-belligerent population, and creates a new understanding of the changes and the continuities that underlay the post-war economy and society. The book was first published in 1998 and is now re-issued in new edition that incorporates information from newly translated Japanese documents and other recent discoveries.
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Occupation of Malaya written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Japanese occupation of Malaya draws on archives, oral histories, and descriptive accounts by Japanese officers involved in the campaign. A picture emerges of a country struggling in the face of shortages of consumer goods, unemployment, high prices, a black market, and corruption.
Author : Brian Farrell
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814423890
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The Defence and Fall of Singapore written by Brian Farrell and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Singapore, 1941-1942 written by Masanobu Tsuji and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349203637
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book When Singapore Fell written by Joseph Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-11-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Allen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780714681986
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Singapore 1941-1942 written by Louis Allen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Allen analyzes the remote political causes of the Japanese campaign, gives an account of the events of the campaign, and then attempts to apportion responsibility for the loss of Singapore.
Author : Jon Diamond
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473854474
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Malaya and Singapore written by Jon Diamond and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This photo essay produces a very effective picture of the defeat of British forces in Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese . . . Highly recommended.”—Firetrench 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 defenses 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 powerful story of a tragedy illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this is a highly enlightening text on the Forgotten War.”—The Bulletin of The Military Historical Society “Contains an interesting set of well captioned archive photos showing a period that was among the darkest days for the British Commonwealth during WW2.”—Military Modelling
Author : Ong Chit Chung
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814435449
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Operation Matador written by Ong Chit Chung and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942, Churchill called it the “largest capitulation in British history.” Till today, the myth persists that this was due to the British forces’ being caught off-guard, with their guns facing the wrong direction—towards the sea. This book offers an alternative insight into why Malaya and Singapore were captured by the Japanese. The question of the landward defence of Singapore and Malaya was first raised as early as 1918, eventually taking the form of Operation Matador, the elaborate planning and preparations for which amply demonstrate that the British fully expected the Japanese to attack Singapore from the rear, and had formulated a plan to stop the Japanese at the Kra Isthmus. Yet, when the Japanese forces landed, they found Malaya and Singapore defended by an emasculated fleet, obsolescent aircraft, inadequate artillery and no tanks. The battle for Malaya and Singapore was lost even before the first shot was fired—in the corridors of power at Whitehall. Churchill’s half-hearted support for Operation Matador meant that Malaya was starved of the necessary reinforcements, and the commanders on the spot were expected to “make bricks without straw.” The question that remains: If implemented, might Operation Matador have stopped the Japanese?
Author : Beng Luan Tan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945 written by Beng Luan Tan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry P. Frei
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guns of February written by Henry P. Frei and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To tell this story, Henry Frei wrote a book that reads like a novel, following a small number of Japanese soldiers through their mad dash down the peninsula and into the inferno of burning oil tanks and bursting shells that was Singapore shortly before the British surrender. But this is not a novel. The images and words are those of Japanese soldiers who experienced those fateful days, men who survived the guns of February but would be haunted by their echo for the rest of their days."--Back cover.
Author : Bernice Archer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714655925
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Internment of Western Civilians Under the Japanese, 1941-1945 written by Bernice Archer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Internment of Western Civilians Under the Japanese 1941-1945 also covers wider issues such as the role of women in war, gender and war, children and war, colonial culture, oral history and war and memory."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Brian Bond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113576624X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45 written by Brian Bond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative collection brings together scholars from the UK and Japan to reappraise their respective countries' leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns.
Author : Arthur Ernest Percival
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The War in Malaya written by Arthur Ernest Percival and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Hack
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695995
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore written by Karl Hack and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826437605
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The British Empire and the Second World War written by Ashley Jackson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British Empire fought together as a whole during the war has been forgotten. All the parts of the empire joined the struggle and were involved in it from the beginning, undergoing huge changes and sometimes suffering great losses as a result. The war in the desert, the defence of Malta and the Malayan campaign, and the contribution of the empire as a whole in terms of supplies, communications and troops, all reflect the strategic importance of Britain's imperial status. Men and women not only from Australia, New Zealand and India but from many parts of Africa and the Middle East all played their part. Winston Churchill saw the war throughout in imperial terms. The British Empire and the Second World War emphasises a central fact about the Second World War that is often forgotten.
