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Ceylon at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
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Ceylon at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: War & Military Culture in South Asia
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Ceylon became a vital Allied and imperial bastion following the
fall of Singapore. Forces were rushed to its defence in the dark
days of 1942, because if the Japanese had managed to take the
island, the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean, vital to imperial and
Allied communications, would have been threatened. Furthermore, as
traditional sources were lost to the Japanese, Ceylon became the
Allies' main source of rubber, an essential material of war. Ceylon
at War explains why the British War Cabinet considered the island
to be strategically vital as it became a surrogate Singapore
following Japan's dramatic conquest of South-east Asia and Burma.
It documents the measures taken to defend the island and the flight
of thousands of civilians and service personnel to its harbours as
they fled in the face of Japanese forces fanning out across
South-east Asia and the Dutch East Indies. The April 1942 Japanese
raids on Colombo and Trincomalee, described by Churchill as 'the
most dangerous moment of the war', are described, as are the
concurrent naval manoeuvres off Ceylon's coast as the same Japanese
fleet that had devastated Pearl Harbor sought to extinguish the
Royal Navy in eastern waters. Ceylon's role as a base for imperial
and Allied forces and headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten's South East Asia Command is explained, along with the
transformations brought to the island by the war. Table of
contents: Chapter 1 - The surrogate Singapore; Chapter 2 - 'Refugee
harbour': The flight to Ceylon; Chapter 3 - Fortifying the island;
Chapter 4 - 'The most dangerous moment': The Japanese raids;
Chapter 5 - Life in Ceylon
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