Singapore: The Japanese Version
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
One of the most audacious military campaigns of the twentieth century is recounted here from the perspective of the man who masterminded it — Singapore: The Japanese Version stands as a singular, unflinching account of the fall of Britain's great imperial fortress, told not by its defenders, but by the architect of its defeat. Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, Chief of Operations and Planning for the 25th Japanese Army in Malaya, chronicles the lightning campaign that stunned the Allied world in February 1942, detailing the strategic brilliance, brutal efficiency, and iron discipline that drove Japanese forces down the Malayan Peninsula to claim what Winston Churchill called the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history. A document of profound historical consequence, this memoir presents a rare and invaluable insider's view into the Imperial Japanese military machine, laying bare the tactical thinking and ideological conviction that underpinned one of World War II's most decisive victories. Tsuji's narrative, translated into English and introduced by Lieutenant-General H. Gordon Bennett — commander of the Australian Imperial Force during the very battle described — creates a uniquely unsettling dialogue between victor and vanquished. For students of military history, the Pacific War, or the collapse of colonial power in Asia, this account raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of what we call inevitable was, in fact, meticulously planned?
Author: Colonel Masanobu Tsuji
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Ure Smith, Sydney
Genre: Asian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
One of the most audacious military campaigns of the twentieth century is recounted here from the perspective of the man who masterminded it — Singapore: The Japanese Version stands as a singular, unflinching account of the fall of Britain's great imperial fortress, told not by its defenders, but by the architect of its defeat. Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, Chief of Operations and Planning for the 25th Japanese Army in Malaya, chronicles the lightning campaign that stunned the Allied world in February 1942, detailing the strategic brilliance, brutal efficiency, and iron discipline that drove Japanese forces down the Malayan Peninsula to claim what Winston Churchill called the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history. A document of profound historical consequence, this memoir presents a rare and invaluable insider's view into the Imperial Japanese military machine, laying bare the tactical thinking and ideological conviction that underpinned one of World War II's most decisive victories. Tsuji's narrative, translated into English and introduced by Lieutenant-General H. Gordon Bennett — commander of the Australian Imperial Force during the very battle described — creates a uniquely unsettling dialogue between victor and vanquished. For students of military history, the Pacific War, or the collapse of colonial power in Asia, this account raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of what we call inevitable was, in fact, meticulously planned?