The Fall of Singapore 1942
Methuen, $17.95, 223 pp
War
Fall and resist
by Hugh Clarke •
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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