Review of The defence and fall of Singapore 1940-1942

Review Article of: The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 BRIAN P. FARRELL Stroud, Tempus Publishing, 2005 446 pp., ISBN 0-7524 2311-8 (£25.00 hardback) Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II COLIN SMITH London, Viking, 2005 xiii + 628 pp., ISBN 0-670-91341-3 (£25.00 hardback) The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of Britain’s Greatest Military Disaster PETER THOMPSON London, Portrait Books, 2005 x + 470 pp., ISBN 0-7499-5068-4 (£20.00 hardback) By AJ Stockwel