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(More customer reviews)I enjoyed reading about events leading up to the beginning of WWII and specifically about the loss of these two British warships. It's amazing how the Western powers so underestimated the Japanese military capability and, critically, the quality of their pilots and planes. A bit dry, but it would be hard not to be given the details necessary to provide critical background to these events.
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When the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese bombers on 10 December 1941, Winston Churchill is on record as having said 'In all the war I never received a more direct shock'. Their loss led to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese and the end of British supremacy in the Far East until 1945. Their story is an endlessly fascinating one, a story of momentous and difficult decisions, great and heroic men, powerful and graceful ships, cruel twists of fate, and some maddening questions just begging to be answered.
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