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Timothy Hall

The Fall of Singapore 1942 by Timothy Hall

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September 1983, no. 54
Hugh Clarke reviews 'Black Jack: The life and times of brigadier Sir Frederick Galleghan' by Stan Arneil and 'The Fall of Singapore 1942' by Timothy Hall

Timothy Hall has written a brief readable account of the lamentable Malayan campaign. but over the past forty years the story has been told more accurately and more dramatically by a succession of authors, many of whom were participants in that tragic debacle.

This obviously swiftly researched book is flawed by a number of omissions and exaggerations.

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New Guinea 1942–44 by Timothy Hall & The Thirtyniners by Peter Charlton

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April 1982, no. 39

New Guinea 1942–44 is frankly disappointing, not only to me but to those veterans of the campaign who have told me that they have read it. I missed New Guinea, but even so I was shocked by Hall’s account of the cannibalism of the Japanese, and retaliatory brutality by Australians. The pity is that Hall had all the potential for a great history, but fluffed it.

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