Talk Booked for 2026 – The Battle of Singapore

On Sunday 14 February 1942, Lt Gen Percival GOC Malaya Command travelled from is underground headquarters to an abandoned car factory. He was ushered into a meeting room where he met General Yamashita from the Imperial Japanese Army. 70 days previously 30,000 Japanese had landed on the east coast of Malaya and Siam and fought a blistering campaign against 85,000 Indian, Gurkha, Malay, Chinese, British and Australian troops. That afternoon, Percival would agree to surrender. Join Mike Tickner to learn more about the greatest and most humiliating defeat British Army’s history.