The End of the War commemorates the end of the Second World War in Singapore and Malaya against the backdrop of the Japanese surrender on 12 September 1945. This fascinating book unveils much of the mystery shrouding some of the lesser-known but crucial facts and events leading up to the final days of the Japanese Occupation and the end of the war in Singapore and Malaya.
Extensive research based on newly declassified files from British military archives
Relevations of Lord Louis Mountbatten's secret plan to retake Singapore and Penang before the surrender of the Japanese
Discussion and analysis
of Operation TIDERACE and Operation ZIPPER
Illustrations showing the key players and places during this period of Singapore's history
Includes bibliography.
The revelation of these secrets will examine the fate of the Japanese and local resistance movements in Singapore as well as how the locals reacted to the return of the British and freedom from years of tyranny. It will also outline and explain in detail, places that still exist in Singapore that are of great significance to the end of the War and liberation in Singapore.
Heavily illustrated with many pictures never before published on the end of the war and with extensive research from recently declassified private archives in the UK and Singapore, the book will give readers a greater insight into what it was like to be liberated in Singapore at the end of the Second World War.
A senior journalist with international news organisation Agence
France-Presse (AFP), Romen Bose has written extensively on the Second World War in Singapore and has been involved in researching Singapore and the region's military history for the last two decades. His books include, Secrets of the Battlebox; Kranji: The Commonwealth War Cemetery and the Politics of the Dead; Fortress Singapore: A Battlefield Guide and A Will for Freedom: The Indian Independence Movement in Southeast Asia. He and his wife Brigid have three daughters Lara, Olive and Cilla.
