Days before the fall of Singapore in February 1942, a former Canadian Pacific ocean liner was targeted by successive waves of Japanese dive-bombers while sailing toward the harbour of Britain’s supposedly impregnable bastion of empire in Asia. Then, on the morning of February 5, three of the incendiary bombs turned the vessel into a floating…
David Stafford
David Stafford is the author of, most recently, Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill. He immigrated to this country aboard the Empress of Canada.