The Straits Times Annual: Singapore 1941
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased and worn cover; damaged spine with some loss; inscription on fep; markings on page 149.
On the eve of one of the most dramatic turning points in Southeast Asian history, The Straits Times Annual: Singapore 1941 presents a vivid and irreplaceable snapshot of colonial Singapore at its peak — a bustling, cosmopolitan port city brimming with commerce, culture, and quiet confidence, wholly unaware of the catastrophe that lay just months ahead. This rare annual publication chronicles the social, economic, and political landscape of British Malaya through journalism, photography, and illustrated features, capturing the rhythms of daily life from the rubber plantations of the hinterland to the teeming wharves of the Singapore Straits. As a primary historical document, this annual holds extraordinary significance: published just months before the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 — an event Winston Churchill called the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history — it stands as a haunting testament to a world on the brink. The Straits Times, founded in 1845 and the region's newspaper of record, brought together the foremost voices of the day to illustrate a colonial society at its zenith. For historians, collectors, and anyone captivated by the complex legacies of empire and the Second World War in the Pacific, this volume asks an unavoidable question: what does it mean to document a civilisation in its final hours?
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Published: 1941, The Straits Times
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased and worn cover; damaged spine with some loss; inscription on fep; markings on page 149.
On the eve of one of the most dramatic turning points in Southeast Asian history, The Straits Times Annual: Singapore 1941 presents a vivid and irreplaceable snapshot of colonial Singapore at its peak — a bustling, cosmopolitan port city brimming with commerce, culture, and quiet confidence, wholly unaware of the catastrophe that lay just months ahead. This rare annual publication chronicles the social, economic, and political landscape of British Malaya through journalism, photography, and illustrated features, capturing the rhythms of daily life from the rubber plantations of the hinterland to the teeming wharves of the Singapore Straits. As a primary historical document, this annual holds extraordinary significance: published just months before the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 — an event Winston Churchill called the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history — it stands as a haunting testament to a world on the brink. The Straits Times, founded in 1845 and the region's newspaper of record, brought together the foremost voices of the day to illustrate a colonial society at its zenith. For historians, collectors, and anyone captivated by the complex legacies of empire and the Second World War in the Pacific, this volume asks an unavoidable question: what does it mean to document a civilisation in its final hours?