When there were tigers in Singapore : a family saga of the Japanese occupation / Edmund M. Schirmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schirmer, E. M., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singapore--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Biography.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions ; Tarrytown, N.Y., USA : Marshall Cavendish Corp., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japan invades and captures the British colony of Singapore in 1942. All Europeans on the island are being interned. Edward Schirmer, the author's grandfather, faces a dilemma - he is German but born as a British subject. In a strange stroke of fortune, he finds himself friends with General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the famed 'Tiger of Malaya'. Seeing the fate of the other Europeans, Edward reluctantly lets the Japanese assume he is a friendly German national - only Yamashita knows otherwise. The secret of his true identity remains between the two men only but when politics removes the protective Yam

Contents:

pt. 1. Edward

pt. 2. Losing Paradise

pt. 3. Hans.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

981-4408-84-0

OCLC:

823239153