History of War

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escribed by Winston Churchill as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”, the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 alluded to a supposed Allied weakness that Japanese forces could capitalise on. However, as around 2,800 civilians – doctors, teachers, missionaries

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