The Long Road to Changi - Peter Ewer - softcover - Excellent Renedra see if you can do

see if you can do better with outnumbered Allied troops who were tasked with taking or holding

New equipment

but used more as fast tank hunters

These saturated a large area with explosives

along castle walls

The Long Road to Changi - Peter Ewer - softcover - Excellent Renedra see if you can doHow flawed planning, dysfunctional personalities and empirical arrogance took Australia down the long road to Changi. In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. the reality was so different: Britain, over stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the base. When Japanese forces began flexing their