"The man who took the rap": Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the fall of Singapore / Peter Dye.
Material type: TextPublication details: Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2018.Description: xx, 410 pages,16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781682473580 (hbk.):
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Book | Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf | 358.40092 DYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 63799-1001 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index.
Peter Dye challenges longstanding views about performance as Commander-in-Chief Far East and, based on new evidence, offers a more nuanced narrative that sheds light on British and Allied preparations for the Pacific War, inter-service relations and the reasons for the disastrous loss of air and naval superiority that followed the Japanese attack
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