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Title: Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947

Author : Daniel Todman

Pages : 800 pages

Publisher : Allen Lane

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0241249996

ISBN-13 : 9780241249994

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Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 BY Daniel Todman

Read Online and Download Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947. This book opens with one of the greatest disasters in British military history - the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Unlike in the aftermath of Dunkirk there was here simply no redeeming narrative available - Britain had been totally defeated by a far smaller Japanese force in her grandly proclaimed invincible Asian 'fortress'. Not only did the British Empire now seem vulnerable, it also looked incompetent, with some 25,000 reinforcements landing in Singapore at the last minute only to add their number to those spending the rest of the war in terrible Japanese labour camps. The unique skill of Daniel Todman's epic history of the War lies in its never losing sight of the inter-connectedness of the British experience. The agony of Singapore, for example, is seen through the eyes of its inhabitants, of its defenders, of Churchill's Cabinet and of ordinary people at home. Each stage of the War, from the nadir of early 1942 to the great series of victories in 1944-5 and on to Indian .

Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman

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