Owler (Stewart) Singapore Diary
£125
Liverpool, Seel House Press, for private circulation, 1971.
Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth.
An account of the Fall and Battle of Singapore, written by Stewart Owler, a senior industrial executive based in Singapore in 1940–41 as chairman and managing director of John I. Thornycroft (Singapore) Ltd. Printed in a small, non-commercial edition, the work records Owler’s personal observations of the final pre-war months and the collapse of British defence in February 1942.
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