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Churchill and the Guns of Singapore, 1941-42: Facing the Wrong Way?

Jun

2019

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.

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Tags: Archibald Wavell, Arthur Ernest Percival, Battle of Singapore, Christopher M. Bell, Hastings Ismay, Henry Pownall, Kra Isthmus, Malaya, Operation Matador, William Dobbie, Winston S. Churchill,