TY - BOOK AU - DYE Peter TI - "The man who took the rap": Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the fall of Singapore SN - 9781682473580 (hbk.): PY - 2018/// CY - Annapolis, Maryland PB - Naval Institute Press KW - SINGAPORE KW - HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY /MILITARY KW - MILITARY CAMPAIGNS N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index N2 - 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 ER -