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Captured at Singapore: A Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War by Jan Slimming
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Date
- 2022-06-28
- ISBN
- 9781399085687
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Captured at Singapore : a Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books The Limited
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, World, Military
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so terrible that your survival in captivity is still under threat? Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by a young soldier in the Royal Army Service Corps, Captured at Singapore is a POW story of adventure, courage, resilience and luck.In 1940, Londoner Stanley Moore became Driver T/170638 and trained for desert warfare along with many others in the British Army's 18th Division. Their mission, they thought, was to fight against Hitler and fascism in the Middle East. But in a change of plan and destination, he and his fellow servicemen became sacrificial lambs on a continent much further from home.After tough rudimentary combat training in England, Stan's division set off on a secret overseas mission. After months at sea, and several unexpected ports of call, their convoy was redirected to the other side of the world as the Imperial Japanese Army rampaged across Manchuria, Hong Kong and other parts of Asia. Singapore was under sole British jurisdiction and a large naval base had been built after the First World War to defend the island at the foot of the Malay Peninsula. The British Government believed Japan would never attack their prize territory and so left Singapore to fight for itself with limited troops and outdated equipment. But after an attack on Pearl Harbor, the under-trained and undersupplied 18th Division was redirected to fight the Japanese.Using extensive research and personal documents, the authors' account - via their father's small, faded, diary and his 1990 tape recording - tells of Stan's journey and arrival in Keppel harbor under shellfire; the horrific 17 day battle to defend the island, the Japanese Admonition and the harrowing forced labor conditions after capitulation.Only a small percentage of the 85,000 British troops returned after the war. Captivity and years of trauma ultimately stole years of the young soldiers' lives, which they were later ordered to forget by the British Government. The aim of this work is to provide information for future generations to understand how ordinary men died under horrific conditions of war, and how the lucky survived.
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1399085689
ISBN-13
9781399085687
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5057273997
Product Key Features
Book Title
Captured at Singapore : a Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, World, Military
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Width
6.1in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D767.55
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...provides information for future generations to understand how ordinary men died under horrific conditions of war and how the lucky survived., The aim of this work is to provide information for future generations to understand how ordinary men died under monstrous conditions of war, and how the lucky survived.
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Dewey Decimal
940.5425957092
Dewey Edition
23
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