Hurricanes Versus Zeros: Air Battles Over Singapore, Sumatra & Java

A Hurricane pilot during the fateful months of the Japanese advance in the Far East in 1942, the author tells his story of flying against the Japanese, and of events leading up to and during the Japanese invasion of Singapore and the Dutch West Indies. He gives an overview of the doomed defensive campaign using many other individuals' experiences.
In this book the author not only tells his story of flying against the Japanese but he succeeds in painting a much wider canvas embracing the events leading up to and during the Japanese invasion of Singapore and the Dutch West Indies. The use of many individuals' accounts is possible due to his tracking down and interviewing those who fought with him. He does not lose sight of the 'big picture' and his speculation that defeat was not inevitable raises many questions of the quality of the Allied leadership. He chronicles not just the bravery of the defenders but the atrocities perpetrated by the victorious Japanese against combatants and civilians.

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