Defeat in Malaya: The Fall of Singapore (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign Book, No. 5)

160 pp. The colony paid in full for Britain's incredible failure to recognise the growing Japanese menace. One route into Singapore--through the jungle--was "impossible" for an invading army... but through the jungle they came. And a humiliating, bloody retreat left the civilians to the harrowing occupation.