Illusionary Fortress

Having fought their way down the Malay peninsula, the three exhausted divisions of the Imperial Japanese army are now at the end of their tenuous logistics chain and must make one final desperate effort for the glory of the emperor. Facing off against them are the British Empire’s battered army, desperately holding out on Singapore Island: "The Gibralter of the Far East." The impregnable fortress of British Imperial power in the Far East proved to be an illusion, Churchill’s “battleship without a keel.”