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Fall of a Fortress - Part Two
People who were there recall the fall of Singapore during World War II
Continuing the story of how in 1942 the Japanese embarrassed Britain by capturing the key city of Singapore. Piers Plowright looks at the event and the atrocities which followed.
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and former prisoners of war recall the brutality of the Japanese soldiers, and the violence and torture they inflicted.
