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Guns of February - Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign in 1941 (Paperback)
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Guns of February - Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign in 1941 (Paperback)
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Guns of February shows the Fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941
military campaign in Malaya through the eyes of Japanese soldiers
who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries, and other
Japanese-language sources. Although an enormous number of books
have been published on Japan's wartime advance into Southeast Asia,
few books in English make much use of Japanese sources, and they
reveal little of what happened on the Japanese side. In the words
of the author, the Japanese"'advance by brigade groups', 'outflank
the defence', 'sustain many casualties', and remain altogether a
largely faceless mass bicycling their way down to Singapore." In
Guns of February some of the voices of these soldiers are finally
heard, and they tell a fascinating story. A few of them were
professional soldiers who served their country with commitment and
dedication, but many were conscripts hoping to stay alive, curious
and apprehensive about the countries they entered, and moved by the
plight of the people whose cities and towns they sometimes
destroyed. Many were young men, interested in girls and in the
sights and sounds of Southeast Asia, but also missing their
families and the familiar world of Japan. It is a picture far
removed from the staple view of the remorseless and fanatic
Japanese soldier totally devoted to his Emperor and determined to
die for his country. In writing this account of the Japanese
advance on Singapore, the author attempted to show the universal
humanity of the actors concerned.
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