The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of 2 Royal army capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the center of Churchill’s deterrent strength Z, surprised the area. Churchill had was hoping that sending a small strong squadron of ships to Singapore could deter a threatened eastern invasion of Malaya and Thailand. He was once to be proved tragically mistaken. Denuded of airplane disguise, strength Z was once left disastrously uncovered to air assault. inside 8 days in their arrival at Singapore either ships have been sunk with large death in a mass assault by way of eighty five jap bombers. It used to be the Royal Navy’s maximum loss in one engagement and the 1st time a contemporary battleship have been sunk via air strength. With the naval strength on the backside of the ocean, and the RAF virtually burnt up in Malaya on day one, Singapore used to be left without air or sea security and fell months later. this is often the 1st booklet to discover intimately the wrecks of those vessels and grippingly narrates a precis of the japanese danger, citadel Singapore and the next jap invasion. this day the wrecks of those recognized British warships lie at the backside of the South China Sea, two hundred miles north of Singapore and 50 miles offshore. the writer was once invited as a civilian professional on an army day trip to dive and survey those wrecks and now, for the 1st time, the wrecks are printed as they're at the present time. fantastically illustrated with particularly commissioned artist’s illustrations of the wrecks, every one is checked out intimately. the tale of the lack of those ships, and of the sacrifice of the boys who served in them, is remembered. This has been a private quest for the writer whose grandfather was once serving in Singapore while strength Z arrived. His spouse and the author’s father and brothers have been one of the final civilians evacuated from Singapore ahead of the ultimate siege. His grandfather was once taken into internment at Changi Gaol by means of the japanese and suffered there for 3 years until eventually Singapore was once re-occupied via the British in 1945. Had the autumn of Singapore now not occurred how it did the writer wouldn't be the following to write down this actually extraordinary book.