The Strategic Illusion: The Singapore Strategy and the Defense of Australia and New Zealand. By Ian Hamill. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1981. x, 387 pp. Maps, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $23.50 (cloth); $15 (paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by Ohio University Press.)The Singapore Naval Base and the Defense of Britain's Eastern Empire, 1919–1941. By James Neidpath. Oxford:

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The Strategic Illusion: The Singapore Strategy and the Defense of Australia and New Zealand. By Ian Hamill. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1981. x, 387 pp. Maps, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. 99.50. - Volume 44 Issue 4