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The Heroes of Rimau
On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" slipped quietly from Fremantle Harbour, bound for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau who, under the leadership of the remarkable Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders, intended to repeat the successful Jaywick raid of 1943 by blowing up 60 ships in Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour, 19 days later, the preliminary part of the operation successfully completed, the submarine commander bade farewell to the raiders at Pedjantan Island, promising to return to pick them up in 38 days' time. A handful of Chinese and Malays and the conquering Japanese were the only people ever t...
Kill the Tiger
In mid-1944 a top secret mission was being planned - an attack on 60 unsuspecting Japanese ships in Singapore Harbour. The attack would be undertaken by 23 British and Australian commandos in top secret one-man submarines called 'Sleeping Beauties' just developed in Britain. Named Operation Rimau (Malay for 'Tiger'), the mission was inspired by the success of an earlier operation by many of the same team recruited for Rimau. In that mission-Operation Jaywick-seven Japanese ships were sunk at harbour when the commandos, led by Lt. Col. Ivan Lyon, slipped into the area on a converted Japanese fishing vessel, the Krait, and escaped without casualty. KILL THE TIGER tells the story of the Rimau operation from its early beginnings to its tragic conclusion. The authors have uncovered new evidence that uncovers the fate of the Rimau men and reveals the names of those who betrayed them. It is a story of men of great courage and bravery, betrayed by men on their own side.
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Kill the Tiger
In the last months of 1944 a group of Australian and British commandos was selected for the biggest behind-the-scenes operation of the Pacific War. Their mission: to devastate Singapore Harbour by destroying the Japanese ships at anchor. Operation Rimau, Britain's last throw of the colonial dice in south-east Asia, was designed as a body blow to the Japanese and a signal to the world that she would reclaim her Eastern Empire. At the same time, Australia's wartime prime minister, John Curtin, had turned to America and her most decorated soldier, General Douglas MacArthus, for his country's salvation. KILL THE TIGER tells what really happened to the Rimau commandos from the very beginnings of the operation to their operation to their intense and courageous fighting in the South China Sea. And it names the men who betrayed them in their hour of need, and details the political double-dealing which for so many years hid the truth behind red tape and bureaucratic lies.
Kill the Tiger
True account of Operation Rimau (Malay for 'tiger'): the mission to devastate Singapore Harbour by destroying 60 Japanese ships at anchor. British and Australian commandos were selected in the last few months of 1944 to use one-man submarines to infiltrate the harbour. Describes the success of the mission and names the men who betrayed the mission. Includes maps, photos, bibliography and index. Melbourne-born Thompson has had a career in journalism and has written biographies on the Princess of Wales and Elvis Presley. Macklin is currently editor of 'The Canberra Times'. They previously collaborated on 'The Battle of Brisbane'.
Kill the Tiger
In the closing stages of WWII, a group of top british and Australian commandos were selected for the biggest covert operation of the Pacific War. Operation Rimau (Malay for Tiger) was an ambitious plan to penetrate Singapore Harbour in top-secret one-man submarines called Sleeping Beauties and launch an attack on 60 Japanese ships at anchor. As the commandos infiltrated japanese-occupied waters near Singapore, things went horribly wrong. Due to bureaucratic fumbling and incompetence, the submarine detailed to pick up the men did not arrive. They were all executed by the Japanese.
Operation Rimau
Dr Peter Thompson is the Sydney Mayer Lecturer in Early American History at Oxford University. He lived in the USA for 10 years, taking his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania before spending four years as Lecturer in American History at Princeton.
No Man's Land
The true story of a girl born into a boy' s body and her struggle to find her real identity in a conservative family. Born a boy in post-war Germany, Paula Goergen uprooted to live in Ireland and was constantly on a voyage to of self- discovery, struggling to find her true gender identity while trying to maintain a normal life, which finally culminated in gender transition and re-alignment surgery. Now under self-imposed exile in the UK, Paula tells the dramatic story of what it means to struggle with gender identity and the high price to be paid for facing up to the truth.
A Photographic History of Amphibious Warfare 1939–1945
"...contains a plethora of after-action reports, diagrams and text which makes the work a thorough and engaging study of amphibious landings during the war." —WWII History Magazine Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theater of the conflict. That is why this wide-ranging, highly illustrated history of amphibious warfare 1939–1945 by Simon and Jonathan Forty is of such value. Their book gives graphic accounts of the main amphibious assaults launched by the major combatants, in particular the British, American, German and Japanese – not just l...
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones and memorials of those courageous individuals.Then in 2003, the first batch of SOE personal files was released by the National Archive. Over the course of the following years more and more files were made available. Now, at last, it is possible to tell the stories of all those agents that died in action.These are stories of bravery and betrayal, incompetence and misfortune, of brutal torture and ult...
