Download or read book Sg Great British Stories written by Holt Rinehart & Winston and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle Story Singapore 1942 written by Dr Chris Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of Singapore 1942 was one of the most decisive defeats of British and Commonwealth troops in the Second World War, driven primarily by Allied complacency. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story: Detailed profiles explore the military backgrounds of the Allied and Japanese leaders, Comprehensive maps bring you close to the action with informative details of tactical layout of Singapore Island, Photographs allow you to get to know the faces, equipment and terrain behind the battle, Primary accounts of the misguided British perspective of the war in the Far East appear throughout, Orders of battle reveal the composition of the British, Commonwealth and Japanese armies, Packed with fact boxes, this short introduction is the perfect way to explore this crucial battle.
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State of Singapore written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singapore River written by Stephen Dobbs and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepot trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century.Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and workplace. He describes the tidal swamp in the early days of the British settlement, where merchants ignored Raffles much-vaunted city plan and built their businesses on the limited high ground along the marshy riverbanks.Later, even as the long distance shipping moved to new port facilities elsewhere on the island, the river remained the base for a large regional trade, and boatmen and businessmen struggled to cope with silting, over-crowding, and bridges that were too low to be passed at high tide.Looking at the post-war years, Dobbs zeros in on the boatmen who carried goods between the "e;godowns"e; or warehouses along the river and the freighters lying at anchor in the roads. Despite its pollution, the river remained home to a vital community of coolies and tally clerks, and the tumultuous urban life that swirled around them.Today the waterfront community has been relocated. The shophouses and warehouses along the river are now chic cafes and upmarket restaurants, fish have returned to the Singapore River, and urban dwellers stroll on walks along the river's edge.Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's many transformations during the past two centuries.
Download or read book Story of the World Activity Book 4 Modern Age written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by Peace Hill Press. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Young Men s Christian Association of the City of New York Circulating Department July 1900 written by Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle For Singapore written by Peter Thompson and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a much smaller Japanese force, and the Japanese occupation through the eyes of those who were there - the soldiers of all nationalities and members of Singapore's beleaguered population. An enthralling and perceptive account, which never loses sight of the human cost of the tragedy - Yorkshire Evening Post. An insightful and dramatic analysis - The Good Book Guide
Download or read book List of Books in the School Reference Collection written by Public Library of Brookline and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding List of Books Except Fiction in the Public Library of the City of Dener with Author and Subject Indexes written by Denver Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Singapore Grip written by J.G. Farrell and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end. A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began withTroubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.
Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zero the Story of Japan s Air War in the Pacific As Seen by the Enemy written by Martin Caidin and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving fighter ace) as well as many other men, tell the inside story of developing the Zero and Japan's air force. They tell what it felt like to bomb American ships and to shoot down American airplanes -- and then of their shock when the myth of invincibility was shattered by the new Lightning, Hellcat, and Corsair fighters. They tell of the fight against the growing strength of a remorseless American enemy; and how, in desperation the Japanese High Command ordered the creation of deadly suicide squadrons, the Kamikaze. And finally they reveal their reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Download or read book Stories from the Stacks written by National Library Board and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rare Materials Collection at the National Library, Singapore, contains more than 11,000 items and spans six centuries of history. The collection comprises books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, correspondence, and more, which together provide us with valuable insights into Singapore’s history. This book presents a diverse selection of almost 50 of the rarest and most priceless items in the collection, including the Mao Kun Map, a recently-acquired Munshi Abdullah edition of the Sejarah Melayu, 19th century lithographs, Japanese reconnaissance maps, correspondence from Raffles, and even a football rule book in Jawi. Each item is described and analysed with an insightful essay and richly complemented with illustrations, helping to bring these stories from the stacks to life and lead us down new avenues of historical understanding.
Download or read book Scrupulous Thorough Fearless The Cpib Story written by Clement Liew and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrupulous, Thorough, Fearless — The CPIB Story chronicles the journey of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) from its beginnings to the present. The narrative contained within the pages of this book contextualises the role of the Bureau in Singapore's nation-building journey. The creation of the Bureau and its history and heritage are closely intertwined with the birth and history of Singapore.It starts by providing an account of how corruption had become so prevalent in pre-war Singapore. The experiences of war, characterised by extreme shortages, hunger and privation, provided further impetus for many to resort to corrupt ways to get what they needed and coveted in the post-war period. This Bureau was established to clean up the corruption of the day, an endeavour which contributed to the birth of a strong nation whose people shared a common ethos of integrity. Singapore's reputation for being corruption-free has since been one of the pillars of the nation's economic success.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Singapore written by Justin Corfield and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Singapore relates this history of this country through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Singapore history from the earliest times to the present.
