Buy this book on-line SHORES, CHRISTOPHER and CULL, BRIAN with IZAWA, YASUHO: : BLOODY SHAMBLES: VOLUME ONE - THE DRIFT TO WAR TO THE FALL OF SINGAPORELONDON.GRUB STREET,1992. ISBN 094881750X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour (painting) illustrated upper wrap and contemporary b/w photographic rear wrap,with minimal creasing to both top+bottom edges and to head+foot of
spine/backstrip also - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy possibly? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original orangey-brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-392pp [paginated] includes author's foreword and acknowledgements,chronology of major events,9 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,an index,plus [unpaginated]title-page and contents list/table.
In December 1941 Japan launched a devastating Blitzkrieg on the Far Eastern dependencies of Great Britain,Holland and the USA.
Supposedly the Allies were taken by surprise - but were they? This book details the events and causes of the drift to war then,for the first time,covers in intimate detail from both the Allied and Japanese point of view,the full story of the catastrophic war which followed.With better leadership and above all,with greater training,experience and morale,the Japanese comprehensively destroyed the Allied air forces.
Covered in this,the first of a two-volume study are the initial operations in Malaya,the Phillipines,the Dutch East Indies,Hong Kong and Burma,culminating with the fall of Singapore itself.
Coming in volume two are the shattering attacks on Broome and Darwin in Australia,on Sumatra and Java,Rabaul and New Guinea,and finally on Ceylon's naval bases.The story ends as the Japanese reached the extremities of their advance,and just before their first major setbacks at the Coral Sea and Midway.
A chastening tale,leavened with acts of personal gallantry and sacrifice - but above all a story of unpreparedness,panic,poor leadership and wishful thinking.
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