Kill The Tiger: Operation Rimau And The Battle For Southeast Asia

by Peter Thompson, Robert Macklin

Rare Book

Genres: World War II

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This is Peter^^^^^Thompson.

Reviews

[Gemma Searle]

This story has fascinated me since I first watched the TV movie about operation Jaywick and the the sequel about Rimau.
I visited Singapore and Kranji war cemetery in 2019 and saw the graves of some of the men who lost their lives in this mission and I wanted to read the real story rather than the polished film adaptation. It seems devastating to me that bureaucratic incompetence cost these men and their families so much and still decades later they have not properly been acknowledged.
Thank you for the book and keeping this story alive

[Tegan]

Added with recommendation by Sharen: “These are about Ivan Lyon (my Grandfather), and the raid that he led on Singapore Harbour.”

[Nanto]

Akhirnya....nemu juga buku yang menceritakan film yang begitu keren ttg pasukan komando Australia yang melakukan operasi ke Singapur. Filmnya kalo gak salah judulnya The Highest Honor. Ada juga film lain yang cerita ttg pasukan yang sama, judulnya Heroes II: The Return

Link menarik lainnya silakan diklik di:
1. Operation Rimau versi answer[dot:]com
2. Operation Jaywick versi answers[dot:]com
3. 1944 - Operation Rimau versi Mindef Spore

Ini cerita tentang ketangguhan dan juga kesetiaan, sekaligus resiko pasukan komando yang mungkin "dilupakan" oleh jenderalnya. Gue pas nonton dulu salut aja sama daya tahan dan sekaligus gregetan dengan beberapa error yang menyebabkan korban begitu besar.

Masih penasaran, jadi gue naikin lagi buku ini. Cari dimana yah, buku ato filmnya?

Merged review:

ceritanya mungkin lebih ke detil dari personal anggota yang terlibat kali yah. Kisah yang sama dari buku Kill the Tiger: Operation Rimau and the Battle for Southeast Asia

[Trevor Hall]

One of the thousands of true stories of WWII heroism, this one concerning a small group of volunteers who targeted the Japanese warships stationed in Singapore harbour. Incredibly, these Brits and Aussies used kayaks that converted to submersibles with scuba equipment. The second mission goes badly wrong. A line on the cover reads ' this book is written in anger' and at the end the reader can easily see why.