
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100 000 British Australian & Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore & its fall led to imprisonment torture & death for thousands of allied men & women. With much new material from British Australian Indian & Japanese sources Colin Smith has woven together the full & terrifying story of the fall of Singapore & its aftermath. Here alongside cowardice & incompetence are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest & most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.