Today he is best known for his military histories of Britain's campaigns against the Vichy French, the surrender of Singapore and The Battle of Alamein, which was recently reissued in condensed form as part of Penguin's e-Book Shorts series. Smith lives in Nicosia with his wife Sylvia and several cats. Singapore Burning.: Colin Smith. Viking, - Singapore - pages. 1 Review. Churchill called it 'the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.'. This description of the fall. Singapore Burning Heroism and Surrender in World War II by Smith, Colin (Author) ON May, Paperback. Smith, Colin. Published by Penguin .
Colin Smith is a historian, novelist and former war correspondent. In , at the age of twenty-three, he became the Observer's chief roving reporter and spent the next thirty years covering the world's trouble spots for the Observer and the Sunday Times - from Phnom Penh to the Golan Heights, from Saigon to Sarajevo, from Nikosia to Port-au-Prince. Singapore Burning by Colin Smith tries to convey the confusion and horror experienced by the British, Malayan, Chinese, and others who were on the Malayan peninsula and in Singapore during the Japanese conquest in December of and January of Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II by Colin Smith (Hardcover, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!
Singapore Burning: heroism and surrender in World War II by Colin Smith As Colin Smith's new book demonstrates, the defeat was less due to acts of sensational stupidity than a more piecemeal. Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II. Smith, Colin. Published by Penguin () ISBN ISBN Used. Softcover. Quantity: 1. From: MAD 4 BOOKS (Wolsingham, CD, United Kingdom) Seller Rating. Both are tales of imperial over-stretch and hubris. Smith manages to interweave the human-scale with some crushing big-picture judgements. Singapore Burning makes the subsequent British recovery in northern India and Burma under Bill Slim all the more remarkable.
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