دانلود کتاب A Bleeding Slaughterhouse: The Outrageous True Story of the Alexandra Hospital Massacres, Singapore February 1942

One Hell of a Story about Humanity and Inhumanity.'There are some books, which once read, you cannot get completely out of your mind. This is one of them. Whether you are just curious, a scholar, military historian or, like me, have a personal connection to this story, you will at once be absorbed.’ Col (ret’d) Marty Slade, RAMCIn the hours before the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, the British Military Hospital Alexandra found itself isolated in a no-man’s-land between the Japanese and Allied frontlines.This is the definitive account of what happened next, resulting in up to 300 soldier-patients, nurses, orderlies and doctors being killed. Many by bayonet in their beds where they lay prone. Others by bayonet and machine gun after they were removed and held captive overnight in the Sisters’ Quarters outhouse. One even on the operating theatre table awaiting surgery.A Bleeding Slaughterhouse examines the characters, causes and culpability of this two-day tsunami of terror.The story-driven narrative is based on first-hand interviews with survivors, and never-seen unpublished memoir notes. And it names the guilty.‘I didn’t really think I could escape my awful plight, but I didn’t want to be slaughtered like a sheep. Worse than any nightmare I ever had, worse than the most fearful ordeal I had ever imagined.’ - Sgt Norman Bryer, RAF, survivor.Over 40 pages of original maps, illustrations and unpublished photographs.Some of the Key Events and Characters featured in this WW2 Singapore 1942 book:British Military Hospital SingaporeAlexander Hospital Singapore Japanese War Crimes in Singapore Royal Army Dental Corp (RADC)Royal Army Medical Corp 32 Company36th Company Royal Engineers Mutaguchi Renya Mutaguchi18th Division IJAFort CanningTanglin Barracks hospital Captain Iwasaki Yoshiaki British Indian ArmyEthel Mulvany 44th Indian infantry Brigade Royal Bombay Sappers and MinersMadras Sappers and MinersColonel Tsuji Masonobu Loyal North Lancashire regiment (2nd Loyals)Queen Alexandra Nurses (QAIMNS)Major Cyril WildFergus AnckornEdith StevensonVivian BullwinkelFederated Malay State Volunteer force (fmsvf)Changi prison/ Changi GaolRAMC Crookham / Boyce Barracks198th field ambulance RAMC Macclesfield53rd Division British ArmyCaptain Tom Smiley RAMC114th Regiment IJA QA nurses HMS RepulseHMS Prince of WalesImperial Japanese Army (IJA) 25th Army Malaya SingaporeBattle of Bukit Chandu / Opium HillIndian National Army INA6th Royal Norfolk Regiment 2nd East Surrey Regiment5th Cambridgeshire Regiment55th Infantry brigadeSt Stephen’s College Hong Kong massacre5th Bedfordshire RegimentVyner BrookeSS KualaBangka beach massacreTanjong Pinang Joseph Craven, Colonel RAMC Captain Hugh PilkingtonIto KojiroKeppel BarracksDr Bill FranklandJoseph Stillwell / Vinegar Joe StillwellThai Burma Death RailwayHellfire PassPrisoners of War / Pow/ FEPOWOperation Ha-goOperation U-goBattle of the Admin Box George Macdonald FraserBritish 14th ArmyJapan 15th ArmyBurma 1944 campaign Singapore 1943 Singapore 1944 Singapore 1945Sime Road camp 38th Division IJABrig George Ballantine Dr Hugh de WardenerCapt Constantine PetrovskyRobert Loveday, Royal EngineersDr Julian Taylor (colonel ramc)British war crimes trials Singapore Tokyo war crimes trials 229th Regiment IJAColonel Tanaka RyozaburoCaptain Masaru Orita Sugamo Prison