- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press; New edition edition (Oct 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 188511933X
- ISBN-13: 978-1885119339
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,548,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The fall of Singapore was the worst defeat ever suffered by the British Empire; this dramatic account emphasizes the initiative and tactics that enabled 60,000 Japanese to defeat 130,000 British.
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Why Japan fought in World war 11,
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This review is from: Japan's Greatest Victory/ Britain's Greatest Defeat (Paperback)
Colonel Masanobu Tsuji writes a compelling book on the reasons why Japan fought the White Race and their Asian camp followers. Colonel Tsuji's accounts of the following are realistically portrayed and sheds some light on the thinkings of Japan during the Singapore Campaign:Colonel Tsuji writes--"Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, [December 7, 1941 ], the White Race ruled and subjugated the following Yellow and Brown races of Asia: 350 Million Indians, rule by-- 500 Thousands Whites. 60 Millions South/East Asians, ruled by--200 Thousands Dutch. 23 Million Indochinese, ruled by--20 Thousands French. 6 Million Malayans ruled by--10 Thousand British. 13 Million Filipinos, ruled by--10 Thousand Americans. Total=452 Million Asian and Brown people were ruled by--740 Thousand White Race of people. The Final Blow to White Rule in Asia. Colonel Tsuji describes how Japan believed that they were embarked upon a great mission which called upon Japan, as representative of all people of the Far East, to deal a resolute and final blow to centuries of European aggression in Asia. In this regard, Japan embarked upon a noble and solemn undertaking which changed the course of World History. Colonel Tsuji described how Japan told its troops that--"once you set foot on the enemy's territories you will see for yourselves, only to clearly, just what this oppression by the White man means.--Imposing splendid buildings look down onto the tiny thatched huts of natives. Money, squeezed from the blood of Asians maintains these small White Minorities in their luxurious mode of life- or disappears to the respected home countries. These White People may expect, from the moment they are issue from their mothers' womb, to be allotted a score or so of natives as their personal slave.----Is This Really God's Will"? The Results of my review of this book has established that: Although Japan lost the war, her actions weakened the White Race and showed the other Yellow/ Brown Races of People that the White Man could be beaten and driven out of Asia. In this connection, the Asians later drove the White man out of Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu, India, and check-mated the White Man in North Korea. These freed Countries were able to help Black Africa with guns and training for their final push for freedom from the White Race. With out Japan this could not have happen and without Colonel Masanobu Tsuji's book we would not know the thinkings of Japan's actions in the war. The main portion of Colonel Tsuji's book deals with the capture of Singapore.
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The invasion of Malaya by the genius/criminal who planned it,
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This review is from: Japan's Greatest Victory/ Britain's Greatest Defeat (Paperback)
Colonel Tsuji was an example of the field-grade officers who so influenced Japanese foreign policy in the 1930s. He literally wrote the book on the outbreak of December 1941--"Read This Only and the War Is Won," which appears as an appendix to this narrative history of the Malaya campaign. Tsuji later turns up in the Philippines, Guadalcanal, and China, where he earned immortality of sorts by cooking and serving the liver of an American pilot. He was a tactical genius and a monster, and this was only one of his campaigns, and only one of his books. Later he became a respected politician--until he mysteriously disappeared on a trip to China and perhaps Vietnam.
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This review is from: Japan's Greatest Victory/ Britain's Greatest Defeat (Paperback)
Colonel Tsuji, chief planner for the stunning Japanese victory in Malaya and Singapore, was an intelligent and brave soldier. He is also an unapologetic spokesman for the Japanese view of the war who insists the war was "forced upon" his country.Conceding that the invasion of Thailand "seemed a breach of international good faith", "we had to disregard this aspect". Colonel Tsuji also disregards the tens of thousands of Thais murdered for insufficient appreciation of Japanese assistance, not to mention the POW's worked and starved to death after Japan's glorious victory. Those unpleasant developments are not dealt with in the present work, but only the military aspects, which are covered in detail with good maps, photos, orders of battle, and appendices. No index.
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