Description
Title: Why Singapore Fell
Author: Bennett, H Gordon
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 262 pages
Comments: The story of the fall of Singapore and the surrender of British and Australian forces.
This is Lieutenant-General Gordon Bennett’s contemporary account of the AIF’s 8th Division and the campaign against the Japanese in Malaya during 1941-1942.
It deals directly with the experience of the Australian troops on the mainland, and provides a context for the actions they were engaged in. This detail is taken directly from Gordon Bennett’s war diary and his memory.
There is much valuable detail relating to the battle conditions being undertaken by the Australian battalions leading up to the Fall of Singapore.
Of course, Gordon Bennett’s main reason for writing this book which was published in 1944 was to justify his escape from Singapore just after the surrender.
