The Man Who Took the Rap: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore-说唱的人

作者：Peter Dye

书名：The Man Who Took the Rap: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore《说唱的人：罗伯特·布鲁克·波彭爵士和新加坡的陷落》 

中文简介：空军元帅亨利·罗伯特·摩尔·布鲁克·波帕姆爵士（Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke Popham）是皇家空军的高级指挥官。在第一次世界大战期间，他曾在皇家飞行部队担任机翼指挥官和高级参谋长。战后留在新皇家空军（RAF）的布鲁克·波波姆是安多佛空军学院的第一任司令官，后来在中东担任高级指挥官。他在20世纪30年代末担任肯尼亚总督，最引人注目的是，在新加坡落入日本军队几个月前，布鲁克·波帕姆担任英国远东司令部的总司令。

英文简介：This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his subsequent involvement in the fall of Singapore. It highlights Brooke-Popham's role in developing the first modern military logistic system, the creation of the Royal Air Force Staff College and the organizational arrangements that underpinned Fighter Command's success in the Battle of Britain. Peter Dye challenges longstanding views about performance as Commander-in-Chief Far East and, based on new evidence, offers a more nuanced narrative that sheds light on British and Allied preparations for the Pacific War, inter-service relations and the reasons for the disastrous loss of air and naval superiority that followed the Japanese attack. "The Man Who Took the Rap" highlights the misguided attempts at deterrence, in the absence of a coordinated information campaign, and the unprecedented security lapse that betrayed the parlous state of the Allied defenses.