ABSTRACT
This book is about the fall of Singapore, Britain’s tropical eastern bastion, naval base and entrepôt: that kaleidoscopic metropolis of Malays and Indians, Eurasians and Europeans, and, most of all, of Chinese who spoke a mixture of dialects and languages, some mutually comprehensible, some not: Hokkien; Hakka; Teochew; Mandarin and Cantonese.
