ABSTRACT
Ivan Simson was a sapper brigadier and Chief Engineer of Malaya Command. He took over the job four months before the Japanese invasion and, under Percival, was responsible for military engineering requirements in Malaya and British Borneo. When he returned from captivity in 1945 he wrote a number of accounts of his experiences, and attempted to have them represented in the various official histories. His failure to do this made him publish his own version, which he did with some reluctance, in 1970, though the draft had been completed many years earlier: Singapore, Too Little, Too Late.
