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“ronald mccrum”

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  • The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942

    by Ronald McCrum ...
    The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and closely examined episode. But far less attention has been paid to the role of the colonial governor and his staff during this period, an oversight Ronald McCrum corrects with this insightful history. As McCrum shows, the failure of the civil authorities in conjunction with the military to fully ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Singapore - The Battle that Changed the World

    by James Leasor ...
    When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, it was a devastating blow to the Allies, the British Empire and signalled a significant turning point in history. James Leasors story begins as far back as the early nineteenth century, with imperialism and the settlement founded by Sir Stamford Raffles. He charts the years leading up to Singapores defeat and the realisation that the West ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • The Forgotten General: New Zealand's World War I Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell

    New Zealand's World War I Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell

    by Jock Vennell ...
    The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest military leaders whose story has remained untold until now. The Forgotten General highlights the courage intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men. He was among the top-ranked divisional commanders in the British armies that fought on the ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The Flowers of the Forest

    Scotland and the First World War

    by Trevor Royle ...
    On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. ... Read more

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  • Battle Story: Singapore 1942

    by Chris Brown ...
    Series series Battle Story
    The fall of Singapore 1942 was one of the most decisive defeats of British and Commonwealth troops in the Second World War, driven primarily by Allied complacency. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story:Detailed profiles explore the military backgrounds of the Allied and Japanese leadersComprehensive maps bring you close to the action with informative details of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mud, Blood and Poppycock

    Britain and the Great War

    by Gordon Corrigan ...
    The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up.Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Broken Nation

    Australians in the Great War

    by Joan Beaumont ...
    The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it.Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • The Chief

    Douglas Haig and the British Army

    by Gary Sheffield ...
    ‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it … a balanced portrait’ Sunday Times‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy’ Sunday ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • 1918 Year of Victory: The end of the Great War and the shaping of history

    by Ashley Ekins ...
    World War I, The Great War involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died were missing, having no known graves. The chapters ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Descent into Hell

    The fall of Singapore - Pudu and Changi - the Thai Burma railway

    by Peter Brune ...
    The definitive story of the Australian campaign in Southeast Asia during World War II from one of Australia's leading military writers.'No man has the command of words needed for conveying.the courage and the cowardice; the loyalty and the treachery; the dedication and the dereliction; the strengths and the frailties; the kindness and the brutality; the integrity and depravity; the magnificence ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • New Zealand's Great War

    New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War

    Edited by John Crawford (ed), Ian McGibbon (ed) ...
    This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Churchill and Australia

    by Graham Freudenberg ...
    "Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at defiance, his mastery of the English language-that made Winston ... Read more

    $11.59 USD