"The man who took the rap": Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the fall of Singapore / Peter Dye.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2018.Description: xx, 410 pages,16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781682473580 (hbk.):
Subject(s): Summary: 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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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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