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The War Against Japan. Volume I The Loss of Singapore (HMSO - Official HIstory of WWII - Military)

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Description:The official history of the War against Japan is being written as an inter-Service history from the point of view of the British commanders in the Far East, and is being published in five volumes. The authors have had access to official sources in the Cabinet Office and elsewhere, and have consulted many of the principal protagonists and their paper. They have also exchanged information and ides with authorities in the Commonwealth countries and in the United States.On the fly-leaf of the first volume is the quotation from the great naval historian Admiral Mahan: 'Defeat cries aloud for explanation; whereas success, like charity, covers a multitude of sins'. The authors, in the spirit of this quotation, have attempted to find the reasons for the Allied forces in the Far East in 1942. In doing so, they have found it necessary to cover briefly in the opening chapters of the volume the political aspects of the years from 1921-1941 and believe that these show plainly that the seeds of disaster were sown well before the first shot was fired.They then recount the dramatic and disastrous opening months of the war, covering the loss of the isolated outpost of Hong Kong and the Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, ending with the loss of Java. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a description of the retreat down the Malay peninsula and the withdrawal to Singapore Island, culminating in the surrender of an army of some 130,000 British, Australian and Indian troops, and the loss of the great Naval Base, the keystone of British strategy in the Far East.The attack on Pearl Harbour, the invasion of the Philippine Islands by Japan and her creation of a defensive perimeter by the capture of island bases in the Pacific are given only in sufficient detail to give the reader a proper perspective of the war as a whole.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The War Against Japan. Volume I The Loss of Singapore (HMSO - Official HIstory of WWII - Military). To get started finding The War Against Japan. Volume I The Loss of Singapore (HMSO - Official HIstory of WWII - Military), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The official history of the War against Japan is being written as an inter-Service history from the point of view of the British commanders in the Far East, and is being published in five volumes. The authors have had access to official sources in the Cabinet Office and elsewhere, and have consulted many of the principal protagonists and their paper. They have also exchanged information and ides with authorities in the Commonwealth countries and in the United States.On the fly-leaf of the first volume is the quotation from the great naval historian Admiral Mahan: 'Defeat cries aloud for explanation; whereas success, like charity, covers a multitude of sins'. The authors, in the spirit of this quotation, have attempted to find the reasons for the Allied forces in the Far East in 1942. In doing so, they have found it necessary to cover briefly in the opening chapters of the volume the political aspects of the years from 1921-1941 and believe that these show plainly that the seeds of disaster were sown well before the first shot was fired.They then recount the dramatic and disastrous opening months of the war, covering the loss of the isolated outpost of Hong Kong and the Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, ending with the loss of Java. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a description of the retreat down the Malay peninsula and the withdrawal to Singapore Island, culminating in the surrender of an army of some 130,000 British, Australian and Indian troops, and the loss of the great Naval Base, the keystone of British strategy in the Far East.The attack on Pearl Harbour, the invasion of the Philippine Islands by Japan and her creation of a defensive perimeter by the capture of island bases in the Pacific are given only in sufficient detail to give the reader a proper perspective of the war as a whole.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The War Against Japan. Volume I The Loss of Singapore (HMSO - Official HIstory of WWII - Military). To get started finding The War Against Japan. Volume I The Loss of Singapore (HMSO - Official HIstory of WWII - Military), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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