Memoirs are always, to a certain g...

Memoirs are always, to a certain grade an act of revenge forward history.

Georges Gusdorf

The canon is rarely pure and not at any time simple. Modern life would be actual tedious if it were either.

Oscar Wilde

INTRODUCTION

In the last month of 1941 Japanese companys landed in Thailand and Northeast Malaya, and began fighting their way down the Peninsula to Singapore. British capital ships refusal and Prince of Wales, sent to intercept the invading force, were caught without air guard by Japanese planes and sunk Singapore was bombed for the first time, and the city and its