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Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II

Autor Colin Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2006
The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture, and death for thousands of allied men and women. With material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, this book offers the story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath.
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ISBN-13: 9780141010366
ISBN-10: 0141010363
Pagini: 688
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Colin Smith is a historian, novelist and former war correspondent. In 1972, at the age of twenty-three, he became theObserver's chief roving reporter and spent the next thirty years covering the world's trouble spots for theObserverand theSunday Times- from Phnom Penh to the Golan Heights, from Saigon to Sarajevo, from Nikosia to Port-au-Prince. He was named International Reporter of the Year in the 1974 and 1984 British Press Awards.

Today he is best known for his military histories of Britain's campaigns against the Vichy French, the 1942 surrender of Singapore andThe Battle of Alamein, which was recently reissued in condensed form as part of Penguin's e-Book Shorts series.

Smith lives in Nicosia with his wife Sylvia and several cats. Readers wishing to contact him or find out more about his work should visitwww.colin-smith.info