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“In Defeat—Defiance.” The Java POWs and a Work of Art and Resistance
29
May
2020
By FRANK WILLIAMS and MEG PARKES
A chapel in Java built by Allied POWs included national symbols, in which Winston Churchill was surreptitiously added under the noses of Japanese guards.
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Churchill and the Guns of Singapore, 1941-42: Facing the Wrong Way?
25
Jun
2019
8
By CHRISTOPHER M. BELL
The fall of Singapore had been such a profound shock in 1942 that Churchill's reaction to Pownall’s explanation may have been more emotional than reasoned.