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The Fall of Singapore — Britain’s Greatest Military Disaster
n a single week the supposedly impregnable fortress falls. We trace the chain of decisions, the jungle advance, and the 80,000 men who marched into captivity — week by week, as it happened …
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Winston Churchill
1874 – 1965
“We shall fight on the beaches.” The wartime Prime Minister whose oratory steadied a nation through its darkest hour.
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On This Day1942 — Singapore surrenders to Japanese forcesOn This Day1945 — Yalta Conference reshapes post-war EuropeOn This Day1943 — Sixth Army capitulates at StalingradOn This Day1944 — Allied troops land at AnzioOn This Day1940 — Churchill becomes Prime MinisterOn This Day1941 — Operation Barbarossa launchesOn This Day1942 — Singapore surrenders to Japanese forcesOn This Day1945 — Yalta Conference reshapes post-war EuropeOn This Day1943 — Sixth Army capitulates at StalingradOn This Day1944 — Allied troops land at AnzioOn This Day1940 — Churchill becomes Prime MinisterOn This Day1941 — Operation Barbarossa launches
