"The largest capitulation in the history": why superior forces of the British army handed over Singapore Japan

80 years ago the British garrison Singapore capitulated to the Japanese case which was inferior to it on number of staff almost three times. According to historians, it became one of the most large-scale victories of Japanese army and the capitulation of the British armed forces largest in the history. The capture Singapore sharply strengthened positions Japan to Southeast Asia. As experts note, official London fully could not recover from this defeat which became powerful blow to the British Empire as a whole...