Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 8 – FALL OF SINGAPORE: CHURCHILL’S SACRIFICE
1 Kirby, Woodburn S., Singapore, The Chain of Disaster (Macmillan, London, 1971) p.184
2 Ibid., p.219
3 Shores, Christopher F., Brian Cull and Izawa Yasuho, Bloody Shambles: The Complete Account of the Air War in the Far East, from the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, 1942 (Grub Street, 1993) p.23
4 Costello, John, The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Harper Perennial, New York, 2009) p.234
5 Shennan, Margaret, Out in the Midday Sun, The British in Malaysia, 1880-1960 (John Murray, London, 2000) p.244
6 Thompson, Peter, The Battle for Singapore, The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II (Piatkus Books, London, 2004) p.335-6
7 Shennan, Out in the Midday Sun, p.246
8 Shores, Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.321
9 Ibid., p.322
10 Tsuji, Masanobu and Margaret E. Lake, tr., Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat (Da Capo Press, New York, 1997) p.236
11 Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.389
12 Shores, Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.298
13 Ibid., p.291
14 Ibid., p.293
15 Cull, Brian, and Paul Sortehaug, Hurricanes Over Singapore: RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action Against the Japanese Over the Island and the Netherlands East Indies, 1942 (Grub Street, London, 2004) p.108
16 Shores, Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.311
17 Ibid., p.350
18 Ibid., p.362
19 Ibid., p.362
20 Cull and Sortehaug, Hurricanes Over Singapore, p.185
21 Ibid., p.185
22 Shores and Cull, and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.363
23 Tsuji, Masanobu and Lake, Japan’s Greatest Victory, p.238
24 Ibid., p.240
25 Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.418
26 Ibid., p.418
27 Costello, The Pacific War, p.237
28 Ibid., p.241
29 Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.428
30 Churchill, Winston, Hinge of Fate, The Second World War (Cassell, London, 1950) p.82
31 Shores and Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.364
32 Churchill, Winston, The Hinge of Fate, p.88
33 Shores, Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.377
34 Toland, John, Rising Sun, p.275
35 Tsuji, Masanobu and Lake, Japan’s Greatest Victory, p.252
36 Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.471
37 Ibid., p.471
38 Smith, Colin, Singapore Burning, Heroism and Surrender in World War II (Viking, London, 2005) p.540
39 Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.508
40 Kitching, Thomas, Life and Death in Chiangi: The War and Internment Diary of Thomas Kitching, 1942 – 1944 (Landmark Books Pte., Singapore, 2014) p.34
41 Tsuji, Masanobu, H.V. Howe, Singapore, 1941 – 1942 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988) p.280
42 Tsuji, Masanobu and Lake, Japan’s Greatest Victory, p.270
43 Ibid., p.269
44 Ibid., p.270
45 Shores, Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.383
46 Tsuji, Masanobu, Singapore 1941 -1942, The Japanese Version of the Malayan Campaign of World War II (Oxford University Press, Australia and New Zealand, 1988) p.xviii
47 Shores, Cull and Izawa, Bloody Shambles, p.385
48 Toland, Rising Sun, p.277
49 Ibid., p.277
50 Ibid., p.277
51 Hoyt, Edwin Palmer, The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki (Praeger Publishers Inc., Westport, Connecticut, 1993) p.47
52 Ibid., p.47
53 Ham, Paul, Kokoda (Bolinda Publishing, Australia, 2012) p.87
54 Lawrie, Tom, Australian Geographic, 15 Feb. 2012
55 Ham, Paul, Kokoda, p.87
56 Ibid., p.83
57 Shennan, Out in the Midday Sun, p.258
58 Ibid., p.263
59 Barnett, Correlli, Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (Penguin Books Ltd., New Edition, 2000) p.389
60 Thompson, The Battle for Singapore, p.505
61 Tsuji, Singapore, p.13
62 Ibid., p.24