Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore by Noel Barber

ISBN: 9780304364374

Cassell, April 2007

286 pages, Paperback

**SECOND HAND COPY. Writing on first page. Some highlights throughout the book.

Filled with drama, this classic account follows every step that led to the disastrous fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942. The Japanese army, though outnumbered by 20,000 men, defeated the British only one week after the actual assault began. "Fortress" Singapore turned out to be nothing of the sort, with its defenders ill prepared and complacent. It was all too ripe for handing Japan its second victory of the war after Hong Kong.