Of the 8000 people who attempted to escape from the Japanese after Singapore had surrendered in February 1942, only one in four made it to safety. Of these latter, many in the services stayed on in India to fight again but most of the escape stories did not begin to emerge until the return of the Far East prisoners of war. For about ten days, and in some cases more, there was, over an area of some 400 square miles south of Singapore, a holocaust of individual tragedies. As well as telling the stories, this book describes the heroism of doctors, nurses, women and children, service personnel and civilians during the exodus.

Singapore's Dunkirk

History

Brooke, Geoffrey

Military

Leo Cooper

When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. It was truly 'every man for himself'. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity and every probability of barbarity at the hands of the Japanese, that many tried to escape. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who chose this option. The only way out was by sea and every sort of craft was pressed into service. Ahead lay terrible dangers; storm, shipwreck, piracy, capture by a merciless enemy, starvation and death through lack of water, to name but some. This is a shocking and inspiring book that embraces great courage, extraordinary endurance, appalling atrocities and even cannibalism. The author was one of those who made it to safety.

Singapore's Dunkirk: The Aftermath of the Fall

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Pen and Sword Military

Alarm starboard!: A remarkable true story of the war at sea

Patrick Stevens

Horsemen All: For Parents Of The Rising Generation And Young Aspiring Horsemen

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942 many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. It was truly 'every man for himself'. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity and every probability of barbarity at the hands of the Japanese that so many tried to escape. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who chose this option. The only way out was by sea and every sort of craft was pressed into service. Ahead lay terrible dangers; storm, shipwreck, piracy, capture by a merciless enemy, starvation and death through lack of water to name but some. This is a shocking and inspiring book that embraces great courage, extraordinary endurance, appalling atrocities and even cannibalism.

Horsemen All: For Parents of the Rising Generation and Young Aspiring Horsemen

Literature & Fiction

Searight, Pamela

Literary

Literary Licensing, LLC

Alarm Starboard!

Pen & Sword Maritime

The Author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt's historic meeting. He survived the disastrous sinking by Japanese dive-bombing in December 1941 but within two days of reaching Singapore, the Island fell. Evacuated in a coastal steamer, only to be sunk the next morning, he was stranded on a deserted island for a week before setting out for Ceylon in a native boat. His epic journey covered 1660 miles and took 37 days. Thereafter his adventures continued, with the North African landings, Russian convoys and, returning to the Far East, he was in the carrier Formidable when she was hit twice by Japanese Kamikazes before VI Day August 1945.

Pen and Sword Maritime

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