Snape, Canon Professor Michael
Forgotten Warrior: The Life and Times of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith 1890-1942. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Guthrie
- ISBN 13:
- 9780281086917
- author:
- Snape, Canon Professor Michael
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- SPCK Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 15.6 centimetres (0.57 kg
- Genre:
- Biography, Historical, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC, a distinguished but previously overlooked hero of the British army, is the subject of this compelling new biography. Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, his remarkable story is finally being told.
Beckwith-Smith commanded the British 18th Division during the catastrophic Fall of Singapore in February 1942, and his leadership played a significant role in the events that followed. Despite being captured along with tens of thousands of other soldiers, he rallied the spirits of his men, created a makeshift university and theatre, and helped to inspire a remarkable renewal of collective church life.
This biography, based on exclusive access to family archives and drawing on an array of other eyewitness accounts, brings to an end the neglect surrounding Beckwith-Smith's life and legacy. It offers vivid insights into one man's experience of two world wars, and reveals why he was so admired by his fellow officers and the ordinary soldiers who served under him.
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