The surrender of Singapore: Pictures show the moment Britain surrendered island territory to Japan in 1942, leading to three years of hell for 80,000 prisoners of war

Rare images of ‘Britain’s worst wartime disaster’ where the UK surrendered Singapore to the Japanese have been published in a new book. The fall of Singapore was perhaps Britain’s greatest military defeat since General Cornwallis surrendered to the …
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