Fall of Singapore

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 621-623 · open book

  This great naval base, the bastion of all British power in the Far East, had to surrender on February 15, 1942, without even being able to defend itself, its great guns, aimed seaward at an army which never came, being completely useless against the Japanese who crept up on it from the landward side.

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• Winston Churchill the wartime prime minister

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