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Kill The Tiger

The Truth about Operation Rimau

Peter Thomson & Robert Macklin

306 pp   -   Paperback   -   Published 2002

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These courageous men were part of Operation Rimau (Malay for tiger) which would use the latest one-man submarines - Sleeping Beauties - developed by Royal Navy scientists in Britain and yet to be tested in combat.

Operation Rimau, Britain's last desperate throw of the colonial dice in South-East Asia, was designed as a body blow to the Japanese and a signal to the world that she would reclaim her Eastern Empire.

At the same time Australia's wartime prime minister, ]ohn Curtin, had turned to America and her most decorated soldier, General Douglas MacArthur, for his country's salvation.

Kill the Tiger tells what really happened to the Rimau commandos from the early beginnings and success of the mission, to their intense and courageous fighting in the South China Sea. It names the men who betrayed them in their hour of need and uncovers the political chicanery which hid the true story behind red tape and bureaucratic lies for years to come.

With a gripping narrative, this is a vivid, personalised account of Australia's most ambitious and heroic commando operation, from the authors of The Battle of Brisbane.

In the last few months of 1944 a group of British and Australian commandos were selected for the biggest behind-the-lines operation of the Pacific War.

Their mission: to devastate Singapore Harbour by destroying the Japanese ships at anchor.